Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 2
Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing.
Who acts: author · What happens: have, describe · To what, where: peculiarity, descriptions
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 (author), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 peculiarity | det |
| 5 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 descriptions | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 descriptions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 peculiarity | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 style | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 style | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 style | nmod:poss |
| 12 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descriptions | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 writing | case |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 style | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every author | some peculiarity | author's descriptions or author's style of writing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Patient | |||
| 2 | describe | author | nom description «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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