Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 8
The wish passed round, and the glasses clashed together till they rang again; while before the town-gate the mail coach stopped with the twelve strange passengers.
Who acts: wish, glasses, mail coach · What happens: pass round, clash, ring, stop
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 (wish, glasses, mail coach), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wish | det |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clashed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clashed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glasses | det |
| 8 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clashed | nsubj |
| 9 | clashed | clash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 clashed | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 rang | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rang | nsubj |
| 13 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 clashed | advcl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 rang | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stopped | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 stopped | mark |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 gate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gate | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gate | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 town | punct |
| 21 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coach | det |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coach | compound | ||
| 24 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | nsubj |
| 25 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 passengers | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 passengers | det |
| 28 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 passengers | nummod |
| 29 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 passengers | amod |
| 30 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stopped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass round | participle | the wish | round property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clash | past | the glasses | together property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ring | past | glasses = glass | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | the mail coach | before the town gate | with the twelve strange passengers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with passenger=Location |
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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