Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 126
And amidst all this excitement he quite forgot Babette, on whose account only he had come.
Who acts: Shot · What happens: amidst, forget, come · To what, where: excitement, Babette, account
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: who acts (Shot), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 amidst | cc |
| 2 | amidst | amidst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 excitement | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 excitement | det |
| 5 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 amidst | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 forgot | advmod |
| 8 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 amidst | parataxis |
| 9 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 account | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 account | nmod:poss |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | obl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 forgot | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 amidst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amidst | past | all excitement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | forget | past | Shot | Babette | account | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Shot | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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