Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 56
It was Mistress JUNE, in whose service people become lazy and fond of sleeping for hours.
Who acts: dame, people · What happens: be, become, sleep · To what, where: Mistress JUNE, service
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 (dame, people), 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 | 4 JUNE | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 JUNE | cop |
| 3 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 JUNE | compound |
| 4 | JUNE | JUNE | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 become | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 service | nmod:poss |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | obl |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 become | nsubj |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 JUNE | acl:relcl |
| 11 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 become | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fond | cc |
| 13 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lazy | conj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 sleeping | mark |
| 15 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fond | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sleeping | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 JUNE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dame | Mistress JUNE | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | present | people | in service result; lazy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in service=Result | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | people not said here | hour | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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