Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 101
A carriage had to come from the Herning hotel to the next village, and she had taken the opportunity to see her friends once more.
Who acts: carriage · What happens: have, come, take, see · To what, where: Herning hotel, opportunity, friends
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carriage), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hotel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hotel | det |
| 8 | Herning | Herning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hotel | compound |
| 9 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 village | amod |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taken | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taken | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 opportunity | det |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 opportunity | acl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 see | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a carriage | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | a carriage not said here | the Herning hotel | to the next village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hotel=Initial_Location to village=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | carriage | the opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | carriage not said here | carriage's friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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