Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 9
In a moment he found himself in Switzerland, closely packed with eight others in the diligence.
Who acts: Switzerland · What happens: find, pack · To what, where: Switzerland, diligence
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 (Switzerland), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Switzerland | case |
| 8 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 packed | punct |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 11 packed | advmod |
| 11 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 13 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 others | nummod |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 packed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 diligence | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 diligence | det |
| 17 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 packed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Switzerland | Switzerland | Switzerland | moment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | pack | participle | Switzerland not said here | the diligence | with eight others; closely property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in diligence=Destination |
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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