Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 56
Then came two servants in grand livery, and carried the fir-tree into a large and beautiful apartment.
What happens: come, carry · To what, where: two servants, grand livery, fir tree, large apartment
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 | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 servants | nummod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 livery | case |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 livery | amod |
| 7 | livery | livery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fir | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 apartment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 apartment | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apartment | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 large | conj |
| 20 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two servants | grand livery | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location servant=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the fir tree | a large apartment | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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