Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 17
"It happened, in the Revolution of July, on the evening of the most brilliantly victorious day, when every house was a fortress, every window a breastwork.
Who acts: It, house · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: Revolution, fortress
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Revolution | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Revolution | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Revolution | det |
| 7 | Revolution | Revolution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 July | case |
| 9 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Revolution | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 evening | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Revolution | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 brilliantly | advmod |
| 17 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 18 victorious | advmod |
| 18 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 evening | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fortress | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fortress | advmod |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fortress | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fortress | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fortress | det |
| 26 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Revolution | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 window | punct |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Revolution | appos |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 breastwork | det |
| 31 | breastwork | breastwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Revolution | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | It | the Revolution of July and a fortress | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in revolution=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | every house | a fortress | 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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