Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 56
The powers of evil had played their game; the sheltering hut was no more to be seen.
What happens: play, not see · To what, where: powers, sheltering hut
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: 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 powers | det |
| 2 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 played | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 evil | case |
| 4 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 powers | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 played | aux |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 game | nmod:poss |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 11 | sheltering | sheltering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hut | compound |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 seen | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 played | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · perfect · passive | the powers of evil | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary game=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | the sheltering hut | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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