Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 107
But there was nothing to be seen; whatever he had heard had passed already.
Who acts: nothing, chamber · What happens: be, see, hear, pass · To what, where: whatever
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, chamber), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seen | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 9 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | conj |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | chamber | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect · passive | whatever | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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