Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 9
It was a very wonderful trunk; no sooner did any one press on the lock than the trunk could fly.
Who acts: trunk, wonderful trunk · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: wonderful trunk
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 (trunk, wonderful trunk), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trunk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trunk | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trunk | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 wonderful | advmod |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trunk | amod |
| 6 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 sooner | det |
| 9 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fly | aux |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 press | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 press | nummod |
| 13 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 lock | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lock | det |
| 16 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 trunk | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trunk | det |
| 19 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obl |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fly | aux |
| 21 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trunk | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | trunk | a wonderful trunk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | could · past · do-support | a wonderful trunk not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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