Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 26
Was he still at Montreux, and should she meet him there on her wedding day?
Who acts: Englishman, Babette · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: Montreux, Englishman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Englishman, Babette), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Montreux | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Montreux | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 Montreux | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Montreux | case |
| 5 | Montreux | Montreux | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meet | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 meet | cc |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 meet | aux |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Montreux | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 meet | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Montreux | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Englishman | Montreux | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | should | Babette | Englishman | there | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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