Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 13
As he uttered this wish, the goloshes which he had put on took effect, and the watchman at once became the lieutenant.
Who acts: man · What happens: utter, put, take, become · To what, where: wish, goloshes, effect, lieutenant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 uttered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wish | det |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goloshes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goloshes | det |
| 8 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wish | conj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 put | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 goloshes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 took | mark |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | advcl |
| 15 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watchman | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watchman | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 watchman | det |
| 19 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | conj |
| 20 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 22 became | mark |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 became | advmod |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 uttered | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lieutenant | det |
| 24 | lieutenant | lieutenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 became | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | man | this wish and the goloshes and the watchman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wish=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | past · perfect · passive | the goloshes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 3 | take | past | effect | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | man not said here | the lieutenant | once property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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