Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 124
Two minutes afterwards he sat in a droschky, which was to drive him to Christian's Haven.
Who acts: Street, droschky · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: droschky, Haven
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 (Street, droschky), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 droschky | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 droschky | det |
| 8 | droschky | droschky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drive | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 drive | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drive | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drive | mark |
| 13 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 droschky | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drive | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Haven | case |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Haven | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Christian | case |
| 18 | Haven | Haven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drive | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Street | a droschky | minute | afterwards property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in droschky=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | a droschky | Christian's Haven | drive 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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