Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 78
In a very few minutes all the huntsmen stood before the cave, and the handsomest of them was the king of the country.
Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: cave, handsomest king
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (huntsmen), 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 | _ | 5 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 minutes | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 few | advmod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 minutes | amod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 huntsmen | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 huntsmen | det |
| 8 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 king | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 handsomest | det |
| 16 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 king | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 handsomest | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 king | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 king | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | all huntsmen | the cave | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before cave=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the handsomest king | of the country | 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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