Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 198
Then the gates were opened, and an angel led the old woman in.
Who acts: angel · What happens: open, lead in · To what, where: gates, old woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gates | det |
| 3 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | aux:pass |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 angel | det |
| 9 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 led | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the gates | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead in | past | a angel | the old woman | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
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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