Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 72
Twelve servants were appointed to attend her on these occasions, who each held her by a silken string fastened to her leg.
What happens: appoint, attend, hold, fasten · To what, where: Twelve servants, nightingale, occasions, silken string
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 servants | nummod |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | aux:pass |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 attend | mark |
| 6 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appointed | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 attend | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 occasions | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 occasions | det |
| 10 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attend | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 held | nsubj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 string | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 string | det |
| 18 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 string | amod |
| 19 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 string | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 leg | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leg | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | Twelve servants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | nightingale | this occasions | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | nightingale | by a silken string | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by string=Location | ||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | a silken string not said here | to nightingale's leg | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-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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