Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 116
The coach was well stored with sweet cakes, and under the seat were fruit and gingerbread nuts. "
What happens: store, be · To what, where: coach, seat fruit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stored | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stored | advmod |
| 5 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cakes | case |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cakes | amod |
| 8 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stored | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fruit | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fruit | cc |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 seat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seat | det |
| 13 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fruit | compound |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fruit | cop |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stored | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nuts | cc |
| 17 | gingerbread | gingerbread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nuts | compound |
| 18 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fruit | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stored | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | past · passive | the coach | with sweet cakes; well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | seat fruit and gingerbread nuts | tree rules |
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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