Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 46
“A certain person had an aunt, who boasted of particular skill in fortune-telling with cards, and who was constantly being stormed by persons that wanted to have a peep into futurity.
Who acts: certain person, aunt, persons · What happens: have, boast, tell, storm, want · To what, where: aunt, peep, futurity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain person, aunt, persons), 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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 aunt | det |
| 7 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boasted | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 boasted | nsubj |
| 10 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 aunt | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 skill | case |
| 12 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skill | amod |
| 13 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boasted | obl |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 telling | mark |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 telling | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fortune | punct |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 boasted | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cards | case |
| 19 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 telling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stormed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stormed | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stormed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stormed | aux |
| 24 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 26 stormed | advmod |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 stormed | aux:pass |
| 26 | stormed | storm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 persons | case |
| 28 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 stormed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 wanted | nsubj |
| 30 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 persons | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wanted | xcomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 peep | det |
| 34 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 futurity | case |
| 36 | futurity | futurity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | a certain person | a aunt | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other in a quote | past | a aunt | of particular skill | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | a aunt not said here | with cards | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | storm in a quote | past · progressive · passive | persons | constantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | past | persons | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | persons not said here | a peep | futurity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=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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