Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 26
In the old time wise women were burnt, and poets went about with empty stomachs, and very much out at elbows.
Who acts: poets · What happens: burnt out, go about · To what, where: wise women, elbows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obl |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 women | amod |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | aux:pass |
| 8 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stomachs | case |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stomachs | amod |
| 16 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 out | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 out | cc |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 out | advmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 burnt | compound:prt |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 elbows | case |
| 23 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burnt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt out | past · passive | wise women | elbows | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go about | past | poets | with empty stomachs; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stomach=Instrument |
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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