Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 95
She has left us the house as an inheritance; but to which of us is it to belong when we have families of our own?"
Who acts: mother, we · What happens: leave, be, have · To what, where: house, us, families
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 (mother, we), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 left | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 inheritance | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 inheritance | det |
| 9 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 belong | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 belong | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 belong | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 which | obl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 belong | cop |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 belong | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 belong | mark |
| 19 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | conj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 have | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 belong | advcl |
| 23 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 own | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 own | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 families | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · perfect | mother | the house | us | as a inheritance | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme house=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is | present | belong property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | we | families of our own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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