Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 92
Every day was a festival; balls and entertainments followed one another.
Who acts: day, balls · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: festival, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, balls), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 festival | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 festival | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 festival | det |
| 5 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 7 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entertainments | cc |
| 9 | entertainments | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 balls | conj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 festival | acl:relcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | fixed |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 festival | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | every day | a festival | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | balls and entertainments | one | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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