Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 30
They obeyed this order for a very short time, and then forgot it altogether.
Who acts: horses · What happens: obey, forget · To what, where: order
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 (horses), 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 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 order | det |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obeyed | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 short | advmod |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obeyed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forgot | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forgot | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 forgot | advmod |
| 13 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 obeyed | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forgot | obj |
| 15 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 13 forgot | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | horses = horse | this order | time | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | forget | past | horses = horse not said here | order | then | altogether property | 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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