Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 18
Valais was then, as he expressed it, only a closed-up bag, quite full of sick people, miserable cretins; but the French soldiers came, and they were capital doctors, they soon killed the disease and the sick people, too.
Who acts: Valais, French soldiers, soldiers · What happens: be, express, close up, come, kill · To what, where: appearance, capital doctors, disease
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Valais, French soldiers, soldiers), 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 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 then | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 then | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 expressed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expressed | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 expressed | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 expressed | nsubj |
| 7 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 expressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bag | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 bag | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bag | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 closed | compound:prt |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expressed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 full | advmod |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expressed | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cretins | punct |
| 23 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cretins | amod |
| 24 | cretins | cretin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 people | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 soldiers | det |
| 28 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 soldiers | amod |
| 29 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 expressed | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 doctors | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 doctors | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 doctors | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 doctors | cop |
| 35 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 doctors | amod |
| 36 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 came | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 killed | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 killed | nsubj |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 killed | advmod |
| 40 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 came | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 disease | det |
| 42 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 killed | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 people | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 people | det |
| 45 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 people | amod |
| 46 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 disease | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 too | punct |
| 48 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 killed | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Valais | then property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | express | past | Valais | appearance | a closed bag obl | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | close up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | the French soldiers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | soldiers = soldier | capital doctors | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | kill | past | soldiers = soldier | the disease and the sick people | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=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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