Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 43
Suddenly there appeared a great water-rat, who lived in the drain.
Who acts: great water rat · What happens: appear, live · To what, where: great water rat, drain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great water rat), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rat | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rat | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 drain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drain | det |
| 14 | drain | drain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a great water rat | there | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rat=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a great water rat | the drain | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drain=Location |
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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