Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 123
By sunrise they reached a large inn, where Little Claus stopped and went to get something to eat.
Who acts: horses, Little · What happens: reach, stop, go, get, eat · To what, where: large inn, something
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, Little), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 inn | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inn | amod |
| 7 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Little | flat |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | horses = horse | a large inn | sunrise | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | past | Little | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Little not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Little not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | Little not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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