Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 16

Now they were to take their jump.

Who acts: doors · What happens: be, take, jump · To what, where: jump

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 were	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jump	nmod:poss
7	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	be	past	doors = door		now	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	doors = door not said here	doors's jump		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
3	jump		doors = door			nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/68/16/