Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 33
Some travellers who were here yesterday with their guide left behind them a half a flask of wine, such as you have never tasted.
Who acts: travellers, guide, you · What happens: be, leave, not taste · To what, where: flask
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers, guide, you), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 travellers | det |
| 2 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 guide | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 were | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 guide | cop |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 were | advmod |
| 6 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 guide | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 guide | nmod:poss |
| 9 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 guide | acl |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flask | det |
| 14 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 16 flask | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flask | det |
| 16 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flask | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tasted | punct |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 tasted | mark |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tasted | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tasted | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 tasted | advmod |
| 25 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 flask | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some travellers | with travellers's guide | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | travellers's guide not said here | a flask of wine | behind travellers = traveller | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind they=Location | |||
| 3 | not taste | present · perfect | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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