Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 52
The poor cretin crept away to his bed, and nothing was seen of him during the whole of the following day.
Who acts: poor cretin · What happens: creep away, see, follow · To what, where: bed, nothing
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 (poor cretin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cretin | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cretin | amod |
| 3 | cretin | cretin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crept | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | obl |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 whole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whole | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whole | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep away | past | the poor cretin | Rudy's bed | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past · passive | nothing | during the whole | of Rudy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | 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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