Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 50
“He has a whole forest of burdocks, she has only a bush!”
Who acts: forest, wife · What happens: have · To what, where: whole forest, bush
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, wife), 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 has | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 forest | amod |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 burdocks | case |
| 8 | burdocks | burdock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forest | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 bush | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bush | det |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 bush | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | forest | a whole forest of burdocks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | wife | a bush | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Patient |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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