Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 151
And Peter became as pale as death, and sat down again.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: become, sit down
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 became | cc |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 pale | advmod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pale | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 sat | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Peter | pale property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | Peter not said here | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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