Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 118
He tried it; but before he reached the entry, the rest discovered what he was about, and seized him by the feet, when, luckily for him, off came the goloshes, and with them vanished the whole enchantment.
Who acts: country, rest · What happens: try, reach, discover, seize, come, vanish · To what, where: One, entry, country, goloshes, whole enchantment
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, rest), 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 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 discovered | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 discovered | cc |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discovered | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 entry | det |
| 10 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | nsubj |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 discovered | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 was | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seized | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seized | cc |
| 21 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seized | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feet | det |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seized | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 when | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 seized | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 luckily | punct |
| 29 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 31 him | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seized | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 33 | off | off | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seized | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 goloshes | det |
| 36 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 came | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 vanished | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 vanished | cc |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 vanished | obl |
| 41 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 came | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 enchantment | det |
| 43 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 enchantment | amod |
| 44 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 vanished | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | country | One | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | country | the entry | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | the rest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | country | by the feet; for country | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the goloshes | off property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location golosh=Theme | ||||
| 6 | vanish | past | the whole enchantment | with goloshes = golosh | 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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