Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 2
Bump"--an old pot was thrown at a neighbor's door; and "bang, bang," went the guns; for they were greeting the New Year.
Who acts: guns · What happens: throw, go, greet · To what, where: Bump, door, guns, New Year
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 (guns), 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 | Bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bump | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bump | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pot | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pot | amod |
| 6 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 neighbor | det |
| 11 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 neighbor | case |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bang | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bang | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bang | punct |
| 17 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bang | punct |
| 19 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bang | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guns | det |
| 24 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 greeting | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 greeting | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 greeting | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 greeting | aux |
| 29 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 went | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Year | det |
| 31 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Year | compound |
| 32 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 greeting | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in a quote | past · passive | Bump | a neighbor's door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the guns | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gun=Theme | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet in a quote | past · progressive | guns = gun | the New Year | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent year=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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