Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 57
And then suddenly recurred to him the strange event of the evening before, when his head had been fixed between the iron railings in front of the hospital. "
What happens: recur, fix · To what, where: rain, head, front
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 recurred | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 recurred | advmod |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 recurred | advmod |
| 4 | recurred | recur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recurred | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 event | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 event | amod |
| 9 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recurred | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 event | nmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 recurred | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fixed | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 fixed | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fixed | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 fixed | aux:pass |
| 20 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 recurred | conj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 railings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 railings | det |
| 23 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 railings | amod |
| 24 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fixed | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fixed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hospital | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hospital | det |
| 29 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 front | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recurred | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 recurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recur | participle | rain | then | before, suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fix | past · perfect · passive | rain's head | front of the hospital | between the iron railings | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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