Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 36
It was a long journey at that time, for the railway had not been opened.
Who acts: business, long journey · What happens: be, not open · To what, where: long journey, railway
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 (business, long journey), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 opened | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 railway | det |
| 12 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 opened | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 opened | aux:pass |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 journey | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | business | a long journey | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not open | past · perfect · passive | a long journey not said here | the railway | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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