Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 51
He begged permission of the worthy audience, and set his spectacles on his nose.
Who acts: magician · What happens: beg, set, permit · To what, where: permission, spectacles, nose, worthy audience
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 (magician), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 begged | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 audience | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 audience | det |
| 6 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 audience | amod |
| 7 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 permission | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 begged | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 nose | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | magician | permission of the worthy audience | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | set | past | magician not said here | magician's spectacles | magician's nose | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme on nose=Destination | |||
| 3 | permit | the worthy audience | nom permission «communication transitive»: of=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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