Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 17
Another time they found a few snipes' eggs in the wood, which was a great event.
Who acts: Jans, wood · What happens: find, be · To what, where: eggs, wood, great event
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 (Jans, wood), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snipes | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snipes | amod |
| 7 | snipes | snipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 snipes | case |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 event | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 event | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 event | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 event | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 event | amod |
| 18 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wood | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Jans = jan | a few snipes's eggs | the wood and a great event | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the wood and a great event | a great event | tree rules |
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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