Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 49
The magician had never been out in such a hail-storm as this.
Who acts: magician · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: hail storm
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 (magician), 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 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 storm | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 storm | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 been | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 storm | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 storm | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 storm | det |
| 10 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 storm | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hail | punct |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 storm | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the magician | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | such hail storm | as this | 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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