Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 6
And then, when we had finished that course, the same came on all over again; it was as good as two feasts.
Who acts: we, same, course · What happens: finish, come on, be · To what, where: course
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 (we, same, course), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 finished | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 finished | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 finished | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 finished | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | aux |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 course | det |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 again | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 again | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 good | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 good | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 feasts | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 feasts | nummod |
| 25 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 good | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | we | that course | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector course=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come on | past | the same | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | course | as two feasts; good 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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