Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 114
Carriages and omnibuses are crowded, stuffed and embroidered with people.
Who acts: Carriages · What happens: be, stuff, embroider
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carriages), 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 | Carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crowded | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 omnibuses | cc |
| 3 | omnibuses | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Carriages | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowded | cop |
| 5 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuffed | punct |
| 7 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 crowded | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 embroidered | cc |
| 9 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stuffed | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 embroidered | obl:agent |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Carriages and omnibuses | crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stuff | participle | Carriages and omnibuses not said here | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | Carriages and omnibuses not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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