Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 132
“It is a very old name, and, as well as I recollect, he was the first printer that appeared in Denmark.”
Who acts: book, theologian, name, first printer · What happens: be, recollect, appear · To what, where: old name, first printer, Denmark
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, theologian, name, first printer), 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 | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 printer | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 printer | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recollect | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 15 recollect | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 recollect | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 recollect | nsubj |
| 15 | recollect | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 printer | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recollect | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 printer | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 printer | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 printer | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 printer | amod |
| 21 | printer | printer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 printer | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Denmark | case |
| 25 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | book | a old name and the first printer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recollect in a quote | present | the theologian of the time of King Hans = theologian | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | name | the first printer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appear in a quote | past | the first printer | Denmark | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in denmark=Location |
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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