Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 8
"First, two rich landed proprietors came driving by. '
Who acts: two rich, proprietors · What happens: land, come, drive · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two rich, proprietors), 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 | _ | 6 landed | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 landed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 First | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 rich | nummod |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 landed | nsubj |
| 6 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | proprietors | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 landed | ccomp |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 driving | fixed |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 landed | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land in a quote | past | two rich | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | proprietors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | gerund | proprietors not said here | 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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