Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 25
He was a director of a theatre, a manager of masked balls, and a leader of all the amusements we can imagine.
Who acts: wish, leader · What happens: be, mask, imagine · To what, where: director
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 (wish, leader), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 director | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 director | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 director | det |
| 4 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 theatre | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 theatre | det |
| 7 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 director | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 manager | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 manager | det |
| 10 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 director | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 balls | case |
| 12 | masked | mask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 balls | amod |
| 13 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 manager | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 imagine | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 imagine | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 leader | det |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 imagine | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 amusements | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 amusements | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 amusements | det |
| 21 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leader | nmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 imagine | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 imagine | aux |
| 24 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 director | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 director | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wish | a director and a manager of masked balls | of a theatre | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mask | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | imagine | can | a leader of all amusements | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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