Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 189
Then she became very curious on the matter, and one day, while on the promenade, she entered into conversation with the strange gentleman.
Who acts: disease · What happens: become, enter · To what, where: promenade
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 (disease), 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 | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 matter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curious | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entered | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 entered | mark |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 promenade | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 promenade | det |
| 17 | promenade | promenade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 promenade | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 conversation | case |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 gentleman | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gentleman | det |
| 25 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gentleman | amod |
| 26 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | disease | then; day | curious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past | disease | the promenade | into conversation; with the strange gentleman | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial_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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