Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 115
Perhaps she had just stepped out of one of the gorgeous carriages in waiting.
What happens: step out · To what, where: Mary
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stepped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stepped | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 carriages | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carriages | det |
| 11 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carriages | amod |
| 12 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 waiting | case |
| 14 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carriages | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past · perfect · passive | Mary | out one of the gorgeous carriages in waiting; perhaps property | 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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