Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 21
But now little Tuk was no longer in bed; all in a moment he found himself on horseback.
Who acts: little Tuk, Tuk · What happens: be, find · To what, where: bed, Tuk, horseback
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Tuk, Tuk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 bed | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Tuk | amod |
| 4 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bed | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 bed | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 bed | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 all | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | acl:relcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horseback | case |
| 19 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | little Tuk | bed | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | past | Tuk | Tuk | horseback | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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