Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 105
The showman had just erected his little theatre, and the people were sitting round the room to witness the performance.
Who acts: people · What happens: erect, sit · To what, where: showman
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: who acts (people), 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 showman | det |
| 2 | showman | showman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 erected | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 erected | advmod |
| 5 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 theatre | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 theatre | amod |
| 8 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 erected | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sitting | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 erected | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 witness | mark |
| 19 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 performance | det |
| 21 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 witness | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | past · perfect · passive | the showman | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary theatre=Product | |||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the people | round the room | vn assuming_position-50 «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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