Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 7
He had to precede the bishop, and even the princes of the blood; he always went first,--he was a hearse driver!
Who acts: temper · What happens: have, precede, go, be · To what, where: bishop, hearse driver
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temper), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 precede | mark |
| 4 | precede | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bishop | det |
| 6 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 precede | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 princes | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 princes | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 princes | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princes | det |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bishop | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 princes | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 driver | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 driver | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 driver | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 driver | det |
| 25 | hearse | hearse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driver | compound |
| 26 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | temper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | precede | to-infinitive | temper not said here | the bishop and the princes of the blood | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bishop=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | temper | always, first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | temper | a hearse driver | tree rules |
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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