Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 28
The wedding was to take place in the following summer, and they heard enough of it, for so many of their friends spoke of the matter.
Who acts: wedding, trees, many · What happens: be, follow, hear, speak · To what, where: enough · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, trees, many), 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 | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 summer | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 summer | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 summer | amod |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | parataxis |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 enough | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spoke | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 spoke | mark |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 friends | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 many | nmod |
| 25 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 matter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 matter | det |
| 28 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spoke | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wedding | summer | take property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past | trees = tree | enough of wedding | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | many of trees's friends | of the matter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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