Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 19
All the people clapped their hands, both on his account and John's, who had guessed rightly the first time.
Who acts: people, account, king · What happens: clap, guess, account · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, account, king), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clapped | nsubj |
| 4 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clapped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 account | punct |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 account | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 account | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 account | nmod:poss |
| 11 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clapped | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 John | cc |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 account | parataxis |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 John | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 guessed | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 guessed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 guessed | aux |
| 18 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 account | parataxis |
| 19 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 22 time | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guessed | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | all people | people's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guess | past · perfect | king's account | time | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | account | king | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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