Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 104
In the large public room of the inn a great many persons were assembled to see a comedy performed by dolls.
What happens: assemble, see, perform · To what, where: great many persons, large public room, comedy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assembled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 inn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inn | det |
| 8 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 persons | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 persons | amod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 persons | amod |
| 12 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assembled | aux:pass |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 assembled | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 comedy | det |
| 18 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 19 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 comedy | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 dolls | case |
| 21 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 performed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | a great many persons | the large public room of the inn | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | a comedy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comedy=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | perform | participle | a comedy not said here | by dolls | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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