Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 125
Shot after shot was fired, which was the best music to Rudy's ears.
What happens: fire, be · To what, where: Shot, best music
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 shot | case |
| 3 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shot | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fired | aux:pass |
| 5 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 music | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 music | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 music | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 music | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 music | amod |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fired | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ears | case |
| 13 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Rudy | case |
| 15 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 music | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past · passive | Shot after shot | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the best music | to Rudy's ears | 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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