Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 27
He started back, quite bewildered with the fright which the goloshes of Fortune had caused him.
Who acts: creature · What happens: start back, bewilder, cause · To what, where: goloshes, creature
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bewildered | punct |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 bewildered | advmod |
| 6 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 started | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fright | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fright | det |
| 9 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bewildered | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 caused | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goloshes | det |
| 12 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fortune | case |
| 14 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 goloshes | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 caused | aux |
| 16 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fright | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 caused | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start back | past | creature | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bewilder | participle | creature not said here | with the fright | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cause | past · perfect · passive | the goloshes of Fortune | creature | 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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