Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 95
Sometimes, but very seldom, he heard of Christina, through a postillion or eel-seller who was passing.
Who acts: father, eel seller · What happens: hear, pass
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 (father, eel seller), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 seldom | advmod |
| 5 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seldom | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Christina | case |
| 10 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 postillion | punct |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 postillion | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 postillion | det |
| 14 | postillion | postillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 seller | cc |
| 16 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seller | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 eel | punct |
| 18 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 postillion | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 passing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passing | aux |
| 21 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 seller | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | father | of Christina; seldom, sometimes property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of christina=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | eel seller | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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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