Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 18
But before evening the roebuck was slain, and before night the hunted stag was dead."
Who acts: roebuck, hunted stag · What happens: be, hunt
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roebuck, hunted stag), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 slain | cc |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roebuck | det |
| 5 | roebuck | roebuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | cop |
| 7 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dead | cc |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dead | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stag | det |
| 13 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stag | amod |
| 14 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slain | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slain | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the roebuck | evening | slain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | participle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the hunted stag | night | dead property | 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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