Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 71
He was quick in his work, and soon entwined the tendrils of the hop plant around his beer jug.
Who acts: painter · What happens: be, entwine, work · To what, where: work, tendrils, beer jug
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 (painter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quick | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entwined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entwined | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 entwined | advmod |
| 10 | entwined | entwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tendrils | det |
| 12 | tendrils | tendril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 entwined | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 plant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 15 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plant | compound |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tendrils | nmod |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 jug | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 jug | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jug | compound |
| 20 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entwined | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | painter | painter's work | quick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | entwine | past | painter not said here | the tendrils of the hop plant | painter's beer jug | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendril=Patient | ||
| 3 | work | painter | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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