Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 149
They dragged a burning coach, and within it sat the wicked lord of the manor, who had ruled there a hundred years before.
Who acts: steeds, coach · What happens: drag, burn, sit, rule · To what, where: burning coach, wicked lord, manor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steeds, coach), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coach | det |
| 4 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 coach | amod |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 sat | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lord | det |
| 12 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lord | amod |
| 13 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 manor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manor | det |
| 16 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lord | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ruled | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ruled | aux |
| 20 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 manor | acl:relcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 ruled | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ruled | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 years | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | steeds = steed | a burning coach | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sit | past | coach | the wicked lord of the manor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lord=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rule | past · perfect · passive | the manor | there | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result |
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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