Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 16
It was about a week afterwards we arrived in the town, and put up at the inn.
Who acts: latter, we · What happens: be, arrive, put up · To what, where: week, town, inn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 week | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 week | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 week | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 week | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrived | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 inn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inn | det |
| 18 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | latter | a week | about, afterwards property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | we | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put up | participle | we not said here | the inn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=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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