Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 3
Coaches and horses looked as if they had been frosted with sugar.
Who acts: Coaches · What happens: look, frost · To what, where: Coaches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coaches), 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 | Coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 horses | cc |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Coaches | conj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 frosted | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 frosted | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 frosted | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 frosted | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 frosted | aux:pass |
| 10 | frosted | frost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sugar | case |
| 12 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frosted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Coaches and horses | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | frost | past · perfect · passive | Coaches = coach | with sugar | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with sugar=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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