Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 19
The porter's bell he was unable to reach, and however was he to get loose!
Who acts: bell, creature · What happens: be, reach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bell, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 porter | det |
| 2 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bell | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 porter | case |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unable | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unable | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unable | cop |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 12 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | cop |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | parataxis |
| 17 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the porter's bell | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | the porter's bell not said here | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | creature | get, however, loose 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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