Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 79
It was NOVEMBER, who coughed violently as he got out.
Who acts: gasping, NOVEMBER, owner · What happens: be, cough, get out · To what, where: NOVEMBER
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 (gasping, NOVEMBER, owner), 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 | 3 NOVEMBER | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 NOVEMBER | cop |
| 3 | NOVEMBER | NOVEMBER | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coughed | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 coughed | nsubj |
| 6 | coughed | cough | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 NOVEMBER | acl:relcl |
| 7 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 6 coughed | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 got | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coughed | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 NOVEMBER | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gasping | NOVEMBER | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cough | past | NOVEMBER | violently property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get out | past | owner | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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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