Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 25
Then a porter in livery came out, lifted up a silver-headed cane, and drove him away--him, the grandson of that house.
Who acts: porter · What happens: come out, lift up, head, drive away · To what, where: grandson, headed cane, porter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 porter | det |
| 3 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 livery | case |
| 5 | livery | livery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 porter | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lifted | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cane | det |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 headed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 silver | punct |
| 14 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cane | amod |
| 15 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drove | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grandson | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grandson | det |
| 25 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grandson | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | a porter in livery | the grandson of that house | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | lift up | participle | a porter in livery not said here | a headed cane | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | drive away | past | a porter in livery not said here | porter | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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