Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 5
The clumsy vehicle stopped at the gate of the town; all the places had been taken, for there were twelve passengers in the coach.
Who acts: clumsy vehicle, twelve passengers · What happens: stop, take, be · To what, where: gate, places
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 (clumsy vehicle, twelve passengers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vehicle | det |
| 2 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vehicle | amod |
| 3 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 places | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 places | det |
| 14 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stopped | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 were | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 were | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 were | expl |
| 21 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | conj |
| 22 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 passengers | nummod |
| 23 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 were | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 coach | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coach | det |
| 26 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passengers | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the clumsy vehicle | the gate of the town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | all places | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | twelve passengers in the coach | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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