Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 107
The two others, who wanted to marry, thus saved their lives by a stroke of luck.
Who acts: two others · What happens: want, marry, save, stroke · To what, where: lives, luck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two others), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 others | nummod |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saved | punct |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 saved | advmod |
| 11 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wanted | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saved | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 stroke | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stroke | det |
| 16 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saved | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 luck | case |
| 18 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stroke | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the two others | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two others not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | save | past | the two others not said here | others's lives | by a stroke of luck; thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 4 | stroke | luck | nom stroke «act 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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