Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 102
The grave was opened, and he really was found with his thumb in his mouth.
What happens: open, find · To what, where: grave, man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 thumb | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 13 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thumb | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the grave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | man | with man's thumb in man's mouth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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