Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 4
Tan-ta-ra-ra, tan-ta-ra-ra," sounded the horn, and the mail-coach came lumbering up.
Who acts: Tan, ra ra ra, mail coach · What happens: ra, sound, come, lumber up · To what, where: horn
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 (Tan, ra ra ra, mail coach), 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 | Tan | Tan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ra | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tan | punct |
| 3 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tan | appos |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ta | punct |
| 5 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ra | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ra | punct |
| 7 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ra | compound |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ta | punct |
| 9 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ta | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tan | punct |
| 11 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ra | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ta | punct |
| 13 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ra | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ra | punct |
| 15 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounded | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ra | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ra | punct |
| 18 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horn | det |
| 20 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounded | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coach | det |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coach | compound | ||
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 mail | punct |
| 26 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sounded | conj |
| 28 | lumbering | lumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 came | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 lumbering | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ra | Tan | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | past | ra ra ra | the horn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the mail coach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lumber up in a quote | gerund | the mail coach not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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