Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 59
The journey was over; the letter was opened, and read by the dear friend.
Who acts: journey · What happens: be, open, read · To what, where: journey
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 (journey), 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 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 journey | acl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 journey | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | aux:pass |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 read | cc |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 opened | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friend | amod |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 read | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the journey not said here | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the journey | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | read | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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