Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 53
Then there was a great deal of hewing and sawing, and at last the three-decker was built.
Who acts: great deal · What happens: be, build, deal · To what, where: last, hewing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great deal), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hewing | case |
| 8 | hewing | hewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sawing | cc |
| 10 | sawing | sawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hewing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 built | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 decker | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 decker | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | decker | decker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 last | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | aux:pass |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great deal of hewing and sawing | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | past · passive | last | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | deal | hewing and sawing | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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