Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 3
It was New Year's Eve, and the church clock was striking twelve. "
Who acts: Bump, church clock · What happens: be, strike · To what, where: Eve, twelve
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 (Bump, church clock), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Eve | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Eve | cop |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Eve | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Year | case |
| 6 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 striking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 striking | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clock | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clock | compound |
| 11 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 striking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 striking | aux |
| 13 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Eve | conj |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 striking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Eve | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Eve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bump | New Year's Eve | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · progressive | the church clock | twelve | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
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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