Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 115
Did the gods of ancient times pass through the rooms?
Who acts: gods · What happens: do, pass · To what, where: rooms
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 (gods), 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gods | det |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 times | case |
| 5 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gods | nmod |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 rooms | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rooms | det |
| 10 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pass | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present | the gods of ancient times | the rooms | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location |
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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