Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 14
He happened to meet a nurse with a little child. "
Who acts: bottom · What happens: happen, meet · To what, where: nurse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happened | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nurse | det |
| 6 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | bottom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | bottom not said here | a nurse | with a little child | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme with child=Instrument |
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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