Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 60
Soon after Kay made his appearance in large thick gloves, and with his sledge at his back.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: make · To what, where: appearance, large thick gloves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gloves | case |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gloves | amod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gloves | amod |
| 10 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sledge | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sledge | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sledge | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sledge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Kay | fault's appearance | large thick gloves | with fault's sledge at fault's back; soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
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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