Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 18
Here was all the apparatus necessary to carry on a tannery, and it belonged to the widow.
Who acts: apparatus · What happens: be, carry, belong · To what, where: tannery
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 (apparatus), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 apparatus | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 apparatus | det |
| 5 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apparatus | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 necessary | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tannery | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tannery | det |
| 11 | tannery | tannery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 belonged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 belonged | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 belonged | nsubj |
| 15 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 widow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 widow | det |
| 18 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belonged | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all apparatus | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | all apparatus not said here | a tannery | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | apparatus | to the widow | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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