Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 34
However, he found an opening through which he passed, and came out upon where he expected to find the new market.
Who acts: moon · What happens: find, pass, come out, expect · To what, where: opening, new market
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 (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 opening | det |
| 6 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 passed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opening | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 18 expected | mark |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 expected | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 expected | nsubj |
| 18 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 expected | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 market | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 market | amod |
| 23 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | moon | a opening | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Topic | |||
| 2 | pass | past | moon | a opening | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | moon not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | expect | past | moon | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | moon not said here | the new market | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Topic |
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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