Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 75
The man who was now reading the book turned over a page.
Who acts: man · What happens: read, turn · To what, where: book, page
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 (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 reading | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reading | aux |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 reading | advmod |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reading | obj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · progressive | the man | the book | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the man | a page | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over page=Trajectory |
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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