Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 20
One evening, stork-papa stayed out rather late, and when he came home he seemed quite busy, bustling, and important. "
Who acts: stork papa, papa · What happens: stay out, come, seem · To what, where: bustling
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stork papa, papa), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 papa | punct |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 papa | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 stork | punct |
| 6 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stayed | nsubj |
| 7 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 stayed | compound:prt |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 late | advmod |
| 10 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stayed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seemed | advcl |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stayed | parataxis |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 busy | advmod |
| 20 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bustling | punct |
| 22 | bustling | bustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 important | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 important | cc |
| 25 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stayed | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stayed | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay out | past | stork papa | evening | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | papa | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | papa | bustling | busy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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