Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 14
Then they were placed upon wagons, and drawn by horses out of the forest. "
What happens: place, draw · To what, where: trunks, wagons, forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 wagons | case |
| 6 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drawn | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drawn | cc |
| 9 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 placed | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 horses | case |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drawn | obl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drawn | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | trunks = trunk | wagons | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon wagon=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | the forest | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out forest=Initial_Location |
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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