Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 74
A land-owner followed, who in the month for sowing seed attended to the ploughing and was fond of field sports.
Who acts: land owner, month · What happens: follow, sow, attend, be · To what, where: seed
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 (land owner, month), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owner | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 land | punct |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 month | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 month | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 month | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 month | det |
| 10 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | parataxis |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 sowing | mark |
| 12 | sowing | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 month | acl |
| 13 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sowing | obj |
| 14 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 seed | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ploughing | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ploughing | det |
| 17 | ploughing | ploughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attended | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fond | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fond | cop |
| 20 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sowing | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sports | case |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sports | compound |
| 23 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fond | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | a land owner | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sow | gerund | the month not said here | seed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | attend | participle | seed not said here | to the ploughing | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to ploughing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the month not said here | of field sports; fond property | tree rules |
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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