Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 78
But now we will descend to East Street, and see what happened to the watchman's body.
Who acts: we · What happens: descend, see, happen · To what, where: East Street · 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 (we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 descend | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 descend | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 descend | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 descend | aux |
| 5 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Street | case |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Street | compound |
| 8 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 descend | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 descend | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 watchman | det |
| 16 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 watchman | case |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | future | we | East Street | now | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to street=Location | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past | to the watchman's body | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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