Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 94
Each of them is available for one month; when that has passed, I shall write the behavior of each on his passport.
Who acts: Each, I · What happens: be, pass, write · To what, where: that, behavior, passport
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 (Each, I), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 available | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Each | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 available | cop |
| 5 | available | available | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 month | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 month | nummod |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 available | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 passed | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | aux |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 available | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 write | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 write | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 write | aux |
| 17 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 passed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 behavior | det |
| 19 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 write | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 behavior | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 passport | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 passport | nmod:poss |
| 24 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 write | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 available | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Each | month | available property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect · passive | that | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | write | shall | I | the behavior of each | twelve's passport | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behavior=Theme on passport=Destination |
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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