Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 199
Then the sparrows thought that the roses reigned here, and that the house had been built for their sake.
Who acts: sparrows, roses · What happens: think, reign, build · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sparrows, roses), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sparrows | det |
| 3 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 reigned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roses | det |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reigned | nsubj |
| 8 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 reigned | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 built | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 built | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 built | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 built | aux:pass |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reigned | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sake | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the sparrows | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reign | past | the roses | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | build | past · perfect · passive | the house | for roses's sake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for sake=Asset |
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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