Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 49
A carriage stopped, a kind of open omnibus, drawn by swift horses.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: stop, draw · To what, where: kind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kind | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 omnibus | case |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 omnibus | amod |
| 9 | omnibus | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawn | punct |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 kind | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 13 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horses | compound |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drawn | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | a carriage | a kind of open omnibus | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality kind=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | a kind of open omnibus not said here | by swift horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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