Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 83
The shooting matches were to commence on that day, and to continue for a whole week.
Who acts: shooting matches · What happens: commence, continue
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 (shooting matches), 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 matches | det |
| 2 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matches | compound |
| 3 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 commence | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 commence | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 commence | mark |
| 6 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commence | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 continue | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 continue | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 continue | mark |
| 13 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 commence | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 week | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 week | amod |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 continue | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 commence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | past | the shooting matches | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | continue | to-infinitive | the shooting matches not said here | week | 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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