Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 55
He read again, "'The Intrigue on the Promenade; or, the Fast-Day.
Who acts: perfume · What happens: read · To what, where: Intrigue
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perfume), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 read | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Intrigue | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Intrigue | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Intrigue | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Intrigue | det |
| 8 | Intrigue | intrigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 read | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 Promenade | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Promenade | det |
| 11 | Promenade | promenade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Intrigue | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Day | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 Day | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Day | det |
| 16 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Day | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fast | punct |
| 18 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 read | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | perfume | the Intrigue on the Promenade | the Fast Day; again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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