Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 55
It was a tavern of the olden times, and seemed a kind of beershop.
Who acts: light, tavern · What happens: be, seem · To what, where: tavern, kind
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 (light, tavern), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tavern | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tavern | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tavern | det |
| 4 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 times | det |
| 7 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 times | amod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tavern | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tavern | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beershop | case |
| 15 | beershop | beershop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tavern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | light | a tavern | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a tavern not said here | a kind of beershop | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kind=Attribute |
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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