Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 21
A poor corpse is carried out of the town gate, and the funeral procession causes the caravan to halt.
Who acts: funeral procession · What happens: carry out, cause, halt · To what, where: poor corpse, town gate, caravan
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral procession), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corpse | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corpse | amod |
| 3 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gate | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gate | compound |
| 10 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 causes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 causes | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 procession | det |
| 14 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 procession | compound |
| 15 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 causes | nsubj |
| 16 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 caravan | det |
| 18 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 causes | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 halt | mark |
| 20 | halt | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 caravan | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | present · passive | a poor corpse | the town gate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | the funeral procession | the caravan | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition caravan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | halt | to-infinitive | the funeral procession not said here | the caravan not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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