Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 28
There was not a man in the coach whose face was not swollen and disfigured with the stings.
Who acts: man · What happens: not be, not swell, disfigure · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swollen | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 swollen | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 swollen | advmod |
| 13 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 coach | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 disfigured | cc |
| 15 | disfigured | disfigure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swollen | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stings | det |
| 18 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 disfigured | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | a man in the coach | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not swell | past · passive | face | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent | |||||
| 3 | disfigure | participle | with the stings | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sting=Instrument |
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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