Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit, sentence 4
The great city where he resided was very gay; every day many strangers from all parts of the globe arrived.
Who acts: ambition, great city, day many strangers · What happens: reside, be, arrive
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Suit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ambition, great city, day many strangers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gay | nsubj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 resided | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 resided | nsubj |
| 6 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 city | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gay | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 gay | advmod |
| 9 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 strangers | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strangers | compound |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strangers | amod |
| 14 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 parts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 parts | det |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strangers | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 globe | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 globe | det |
| 20 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gay | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reside | past | ambition | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the great city | gay property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | day many strangers from all parts of the globe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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