Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 35
There was quite a long line of them reaching from the town-gate to the palace.
Who acts: long line · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: town gate
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 (long line), 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 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 line | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 line | amod |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 line | nmod |
| 9 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 line | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 town | punct |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaching | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reaching | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | quite long line of footmen | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | quite long line of footmen not said here | the town gate | to the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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