Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 9
They would be very serviceable to him in this rainy weather, so he drew them on.
Who acts: goloshes, rain · What happens: be, draw on · To what, where: rain, rainy weather, goloshes
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 (goloshes, rain), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 serviceable | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 serviceable | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 serviceable | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 serviceable | advmod |
| 5 | serviceable | serviceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 serviceable | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 weather | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 weather | det |
| 10 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weather | amod |
| 11 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 serviceable | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 serviceable | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 drew | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 serviceable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | goloshes = golosh | rain | this rainy weather | serviceable property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | draw on | past | rain | goloshes = golosh | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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