Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 63
He was gone in a moment, and presently returned, carrying a large bag of coppers in his month.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, return, carry · To what, where: large bag
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | cop |
| 3 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bag | amod |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 coppers | case |
| 17 | coppers | copper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bag | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 month | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 month | nmod:poss |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | soldier | moment | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a large bag of coppers | month | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
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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