Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 21
They entered a long gallery, where the boy had been before.
Who acts: cries · What happens: enter · To what, where: long gallery
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 (cries), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gallery | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gallery | amod |
| 5 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 been | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 been | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 been | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 been | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gallery | acl:relcl |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 been | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | cries = cry | a long gallery | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gallery=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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