Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 10
Here were shoemakers, and tailors, and all sorts of people sitting.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, sit, sort · To what, where: shoemakers, people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shoemakers | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shoemakers | cop |
| 3 | shoemakers | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tailors | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tailors | cc |
| 6 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoemakers | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorts | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorts | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoemakers | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 people | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoemakers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | shoemakers and tailors and all sorts of people | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | people not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sort | people | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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