Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 71
The soldiers fired off cannons, and the boys let off crackers.
Who acts: soldiers, boys · What happens: fire off, let off · To what, where: cannons, crackers
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 (soldiers, boys), 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 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fired | nsubj |
| 3 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 fired | compound:prt |
| 5 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fired | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boys | det |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fired | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| 12 | crackers | cracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire off | past | the soldiers | cannons | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let off | present | the boys | crackers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cracker=Theme |
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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