Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 62
Then came the mother herself, in crinoline, Madame AUGUST, a wholesale dealer in fruit, proprietress of a large number of fish ponds and a land cultivator.
Who acts: mother · What happens: come · To what, where: mother
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 (mother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crinoline | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 crinoline | case |
| 8 | crinoline | crinoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 AUGUST | punct |
| 10 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 AUGUST | compound |
| 11 | AUGUST | AUGUST | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crinoline | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dealer | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dealer | det |
| 14 | wholesale | wholesale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dealer | compound |
| 15 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crinoline | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fruit | case |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dealer | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 proprietress | punct |
| 19 | proprietress | proprietress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crinoline | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 number | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 number | amod |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 proprietress | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ponds | case |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ponds | compound |
| 26 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 number | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cultivator | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cultivator | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cultivator | compound |
| 30 | cultivator | cultivator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ponds | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the mother | mother | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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