Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 3
I was carried from the railway, with some forfeited goods, to the jail, and on arriving I made my escape, and ran into the house of the turnkey.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: carry, forfeit, arrive, make, run, escape · To what, where: I, railway, escape, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 railway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 railway | det |
| 6 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goods | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 goods | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 goods | det |
| 10 | forfeited | forfeit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goods | amod |
| 11 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 carried | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jail | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 jail | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jail | det |
| 15 | jail | jail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 arriving | mark |
| 19 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 made | advcl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 escape | nmod:poss |
| 23 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ran | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 turnkey | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 turnkey | det |
| 32 | turnkey | turnkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | I | the railway | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from railway=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | forfeit | participle | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | arrive | gerund | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past | I | my escape | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Product | ||||
| 5 | run | past | I not said here | into the house of the turnkey result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | ||||
| 6 | escape | my | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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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