Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 8
They were going to hear the clergyman preach.
Who acts: bells, clergyman · What happens: go, hear, preach · To what, where: clergyman
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 (bells, clergyman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clergyman | det |
| 7 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | preach | preach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | bells = bell | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | bells = bell not said here | the clergyman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | preach speech: other | infinitive | the clergyman not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «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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