Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 31
It was the farmer returning home.
Who acts: riding, farmer · What happens: be, return · To what, where: farmer
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 (riding, farmer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 farmer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 farmer | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 farmer | acl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 returning | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 farmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | riding | the farmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | the farmer not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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