Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 14
All the passengers were asleep at this beautiful spot.
Who acts: passengers · What happens: be · To what, where: beautiful spot
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 (passengers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 passengers | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 passengers | det |
| 3 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 spot | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spot | amod |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asleep | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all passengers | this beautiful spot | asleep 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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