Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 44
This is how such high-born people as we came to be in a kitchen.'
Who acts: born people · What happens: be, come · To what, where: such, kitchen
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 (born people), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 people | det |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 born | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 born | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kitchen | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 kitchen | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 kitchen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kitchen | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 kitchen | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 kitchen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | such | bear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | this born people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a kitchen | tree rules |
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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