Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 34
Here were three or four packs of cards not quite complete, and a doll's theatre, which had been built up very neatly.
Who acts: three packs · What happens: be, build up · To what, where: theatre
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three packs), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 packs | nummod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 four | cc |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 three | conj |
| 6 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cards | case |
| 8 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 packs | nmod |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 complete | advmod |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 complete | advmod |
| 11 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 packs | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 theatre | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 theatre | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 doll | det |
| 15 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 theatre | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 doll | case |
| 17 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 complete | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 built | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 built | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 built | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 theatre | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 built | compound:prt |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 neatly | advmod |
| 25 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 22 built | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | three packs of cards | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build up | past · perfect · passive | a doll's theatre | neatly property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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