Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 11
The road here is wretched,' observed another man who drove past. '
Who acts: road, man · What happens: be, observe, drive · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wretched | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 road | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretched | cop |
| 5 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wretched | conj |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 observed | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 drove | nsubj |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | past | past | ADV | _ | 12 drove | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretched | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the road | wretched property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe | participle | the road not said here | another man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | another man | past property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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