Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 8
Two men, in the dress of olden times, passed by him.
What happens: pass · To what, where: Two men
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: 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 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dress | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dress | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dress | det |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dress | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 men | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | Two men in the dress of olden times not said here | by moon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
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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