Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 97
Before him lay a large and splendid city, called Milan, and here he found a German master who engaged him as a workman.
Who acts: Knud, German master · What happens: lay, call, find, engage · To what, where: large city, German master, Knud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (Knud, German master), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 splendid | cc |
| 7 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 large | conj |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 city | acl |
| 11 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 found | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 master | det |
| 18 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 master | amod |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 engaged | nsubj |
| 21 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 master | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 engaged | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 workman | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 workman | det |
| 25 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 engaged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Knud | a large city | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a large city not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Knud | a German master | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||
| 4 | engage | past | a German master | Knud | as a workman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as workman=Attribute |
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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