Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 83
At length the last passenger made her appearance,--old Mother DECEMBER, with her fire-stool.
Who acts: last passenger · What happens: make · To what, where: appearance, length
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 (last passenger), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passenger | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passenger | amod |
| 5 | passenger | passenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 DECEMBER | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 DECEMBER | punct |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 DECEMBER | amod |
| 12 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 DECEMBER | compound |
| 13 | DECEMBER | DECEMBER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appearance | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stool | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 stool | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stool | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stool | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fire | punct |
| 19 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the last passenger | cold's appearance old Mother DECEMBER | length | with cold's fire stool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
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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