Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 1
During the night, when all the people at the inn were gone to bed, some one was heard to sigh so deeply and painfully, and the sighing continued for so long a time, that every one got up to see what could be the matter.
Who acts: one, sighing · What happens: go, hear, sigh, continue, get up, see · To what, where: people, one, matter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, sighing), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 people | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 inn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 inn | det |
| 11 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux:pass |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 night | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux:pass |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 sigh | case |
| 22 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 heard | xcomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 deeply | advmod |
| 24 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 22 sigh | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 painfully | cc |
| 26 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 24 deeply | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 continued | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 continued | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sighing | det |
| 30 | sighing | sighing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 continued | nsubj |
| 31 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | parataxis |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 long | advmod |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 continued | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 got | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 got | mark |
| 39 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 got | nsubj |
| 41 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 continued | conj |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 got | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 got | xcomp |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 see | obj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 matter | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 matter | cop |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 matter | det |
| 49 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 what | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | all people at the inn | to bed | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | some one | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sigh | infinitive | some one not said here | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | the sighing | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | every one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is a | could | the matter | tree rules |
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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