Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 6
A young nobleman and his lady, who happened to be passing through the little town, were present at the performance, and consequently the house was crowded.
Who acts: lady, young nobleman, house · What happens: happen, pass, be · To what, where: little town, performance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, young nobleman, house), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nobleman | amod |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lady | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lady | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nobleman | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lady | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 passing | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 passing | aux |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 happened | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 town | amod |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nobleman | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 present | cop |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 performance | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 performance | det |
| 22 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 present | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crowded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 crowded | cc |
| 25 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 29 crowded | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crowded | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 crowded | cop |
| 29 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 present | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | ting's lady | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | ting's lady not said here | the little town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a young nobleman and ting's lady | the performance | present property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the house | consequently, crowded property | tree rules |
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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