Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 6
"Hurrah! hurrah!" cried the people in the town; for in every house the New Year was being welcomed; and as the clock struck, they stood up, the full glasses in their hands, to drink success to the new comer. "
Who acts: Hurrah, house, clock, people · What happens: cry, welcome, strike, stand up, drink · To what, where: people, town, New Year, full glasses, success
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 (Hurrah, house, clock, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurrah | punct |
| 2 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurrah | punct |
| 4 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hurrah | flat:foreign |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurrah | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hurrah | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Year | det |
| 19 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Year | compound |
| 20 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 welcomed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 23 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 house | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stood | cc |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 struck | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 clock | det |
| 28 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | nsubj |
| 29 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stood | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 struck | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 stood | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 glasses | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 glasses | det |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 glasses | amod |
| 37 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 stood | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 hands | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hands | nmod:poss |
| 40 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 glasses | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 drink | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 drink | mark |
| 43 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stood | advcl |
| 44 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 drink | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 comer | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 comer | det |
| 47 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 comer | amod |
| 48 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 drink | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hurrah | the people | the town | for every house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | every house not said here | the New Year | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | the clock | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand up | past | people | the full glasses in people's hands | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | people not said here | success | to the new comer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=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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