Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 55
"Now comes the young lady," said those in the carriage; and out stepped a young dame, delicate, proud, and pretty.
What happens: come, say, step · To what, where: young lady, those, carriage, young dame · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 carriage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carriage | det |
| 13 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | cc |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 stepped | advmod |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dame | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dame | amod |
| 20 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stepped | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 delicate | punct |
| 22 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dame | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 proud | punct |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 delicate | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pretty | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pretty | cc |
| 27 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 17 stepped | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | the young lady | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | those | the carriage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | step | past | a young dame | out, pretty property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dame=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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