Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 12
First came a whole troop of drummers, beating their drums very cleverly; they were followed by life-guards, with longbows and crossbows.
Who acts: whole troop, life guards · What happens: come, beat, follow · To what, where: drums, drum
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 (whole troop, life guards), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 troop | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 troop | amod |
| 5 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 drummers | case |
| 7 | drummers | drummer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 troop | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beating | punct |
| 9 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 drums | nmod:poss |
| 11 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beating | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 cleverly | advmod |
| 13 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 9 beating | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 followed | aux:pass |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 guards | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guards | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 followed | obl:agent |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 longbows | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 longbows | case |
| 24 | longbows | longbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crossbows | cc |
| 26 | crossbows | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 longbows | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a whole troop of drummers | with longbows and crossbows; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | a whole troop of drummers not said here | drummers's drums | cleverly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | past · passive | life guards | drum | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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