Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 32
Then he went towards East Street, and had nearly passed through it, when the moon burst forth from a cloud.
Who acts: plenty, moon · What happens: go, pass, burst · To what, where: East Street, market, cloud
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 (plenty, moon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 Street | case |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Street | compound |
| 6 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burst | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 burst | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burst | nsubj |
| 18 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 burst | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 cloud | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cloud | det |
| 22 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 burst | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | plenty | East Street | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards street=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | plenty not said here | market | nearly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through it=Location | |||
| 3 | burst | past | the moon | a cloud | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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