Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 73
The dog disappeared instantly, and before the soldier could even look round, he returned with the princess.
Who acts: dog, soldier · What happens: disappear, look round, return
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 (dog, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 disappeared | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 returned | advcl |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | the dog | instantly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look round | could | the soldier | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | return | past | soldier | with the princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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