Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 25
Nothing was seen or heard of the fourth, although the day of decision was close at hand. "
Who acts: day · What happens: see, hear, be · To what, where: Nothing, hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seen | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fourth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fourth | det |
| 8 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 10 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 close | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 decision | case |
| 14 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 close | cop |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | participle | of the fourth | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fourth=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the day of decision | hand | close property | tree rules |
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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