Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 37
A long time passed, and the shirt collar was taken in a bag to the paper-mill.
Who acts: long time · What happens: pass, take · To what, where: shirt collar, bag
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collar | det |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collar | compound |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bag | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mill | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mill | det |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mill | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 paper | punct |
| 19 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a long time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the shirt collar | a bag | to the paper mill | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mill=Destination |
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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