Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 68
In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bosom of his waistcoat.
Who acts: magazine · What happens: have, sew up, letter, bosom · To what, where: letter, right pocket, double louis d'or, bosom, credit, waistcoat
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magazine), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pocket | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pocket | amod |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl | ||
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 letter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 credit | case |
| 10 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 left | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 left | det |
| 14 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passport | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 passport | nmod:poss |
| 17 | passport | passport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 purse | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 purse | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 purse | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 purse | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 purse | amod |
| 23 | leathern | leathern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 purse | compound |
| 24 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 d'or | det |
| 26 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 d'or | amod |
| 27 | louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 d'or | compound |
| 28 | d'or | d'or | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 purse | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sewn | punct |
| 30 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 31 sewn | advmod |
| 31 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 d'or | acl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 sewn | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bosom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bosom | det |
| 35 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sewn | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 waistcoat | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 waistcoat | nmod:poss |
| 38 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bosom | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | magazine | magazine's letter of credit and the left and magazine's passport | magazine's right pocket | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sew up | participle | some double louis d'or not said here | the bosom of magazine's waistcoat | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bosom=Destination | |||
| 3 | letter | magazine | credit | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 4 | bosom | magazine's waistcoat | nom bosom «state 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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