Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 65
Presently he discovered a number of beings, which might certainly be called men, but were very different to ourselves.
Who acts: earth · What happens: discover, call, be · To what, where: number, beings, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (earth), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beings | case |
| 7 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux |
| 11 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beings | acl:relcl |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 different | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 different | cc |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 different | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 different | advmod |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ourselves | case |
| 21 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 different | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | earth | a number of beings | presently property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | |||
| 2 | call | might · passive | beings | certainly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | ourselves | different property | tree rules |
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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