Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 99
And so it happened; for when the measure returned, three new silver florins were sticking to it.
Who acts: it, measure, three new silver florins · What happens: happen, return, stick · To what, where: measure
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 (it, measure, three new silver florins), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 returned | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 returned | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 measure | det |
| 9 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sticking | punct |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 florins | nummod |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 florins | amod |
| 14 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 florins | amod |
| 15 | florins | florin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sticking | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sticking | aux |
| 17 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sticking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | the measure | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stick | past · progressive | three new silver florins | measure | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |
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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