Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 31
The house was crowded; among the audience was the young volunteer from the hospital, who seemed to have quite forgotten his adventures of the previous evening.
Who acts: house, audience, young volunteer, Hospital · What happens: be, seem, have, forget, adventure · To what, where: hospital, forgotten adventures, previous evening
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 (house, audience, young volunteer, Hospital), 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 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowded | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | cop |
| 4 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 volunteer | punct |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 volunteer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 audience | det |
| 8 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 volunteer | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 volunteer | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 volunteer | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 volunteer | amod |
| 12 | volunteer | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 hospital | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hospital | det |
| 15 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 volunteer | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 have | mark |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 forgotten | advmod |
| 22 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 adventures | amod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 24 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 evening | det |
| 27 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 evening | amod |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 adventures | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the audience | the hospital | among the young volunteer | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | past | the young volunteer | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | the young volunteer not said here | Hospital's forgotten adventures of the previous evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient | ||||
| 5 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | adventure | Hospital | the previous evening | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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