Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 23
But the ninth time it rose in the air, it remained away, and did not return.
Who acts: more · What happens: rise, remain away, not return · To what, where: ninth time, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remained | nsubj |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 remained | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 return | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 return | cc |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 return | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 return | advmod |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 remained | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | more | the ninth time not said here | the air | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain away | past | more | time | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | not return | past · do-support | more not said here | 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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