Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 31
There was a great deal of crushing and running about, but no one succeeded either on the first or second day.
Who acts: great deal, one · What happens: be, crush, run about, succeed
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: who acts (great deal, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 crushing | mark |
| 7 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 deal | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 running | cc |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 crushing | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 running | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 succeeded | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 succeeded | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeded | nsubj |
| 15 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 succeeded | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 day | amod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 second | cc |
| 21 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 first | conj |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succeeded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great deal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crush | gerund | a great deal not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | run about | gerund | a great deal not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past | no one | day | either property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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