Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 89
As we have said, the watchman's body had been taken to the hospital, and here it was placed in a room to be washed.
Who acts: we · What happens: say, take, place, wash · To what, where: body, hospital, notice, room · 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 watchman | det |
| 7 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 watchman | case |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hospital | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hospital | det |
| 15 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 placed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 placed | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 placed | aux:pass |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 taken | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 room | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 washed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 washed | aux:pass |
| 27 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 room | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the watchman's body | the hospital | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | notice | a room; here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wash | to-infinitive · passive | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V» |
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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