Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 11
Who were they? what did they want? and what did they bring with them?"
Who acts: strangers · What happens: be, want, bring · To what, where: strangers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 they | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 they | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 they | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 want | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 bring | obj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | strangers = stranger | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | past · do-support | strangers = stranger | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | past · do-support | strangers = stranger | with people | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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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