Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 68
Yet there was this difference, in the institution the casts were taken at the entry of the patient; but here they were retained and guarded in the heart while the sound persons went away.
Who acts: difference, institution, sound persons · What happens: be, take, retain, guard, go away, enter · To what, where: casts, entry, heart, patient
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 (difference, institution, sound 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 difference | det |
| 5 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 institution | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 institution | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 institution | det |
| 9 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 difference | appos |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 casts | det |
| 11 | casts | cast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 institution | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 entry | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 entry | det |
| 16 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 patient | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 patient | det |
| 19 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entry | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 retained | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 retained | cc |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 retained | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 retained | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 retained | aux:pass |
| 25 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 guarded | cc |
| 27 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 retained | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 heart | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heart | det |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 guarded | obl |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 went | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 persons | det |
| 33 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 persons | compound |
| 34 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 went | nsubj |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 guarded | advcl |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 went | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | this difference | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the institution not said here | the casts | the entry of the patient | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at entry=Asset | |||
| 3 | retain | past · passive | casts = cast | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | guard | participle | the heart | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | the sound persons | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enter | the patient | nom entry «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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