Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 13
"Good-morning," replied the sentry; for the clock had struck twelve. "
Who acts: sentry · What happens: reply, strike · To what, where: clock
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 (sentry), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sentry | det |
| 9 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 struck | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clock | det |
| 13 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 struck | aux |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 struck | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the sentry | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike | past · perfect · passive | the clock | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient twelve=Result |
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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