Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 75
Eleven peddlers' children were named after her, but not of them could sing a note.
Who acts: children · What happens: name, sing · To what, where: children, note
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: who acts (children), 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 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 peddlers | nummod |
| 2 | peddlers | peddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 peddlers | case |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 named | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 named | aux:pass |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 named | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sing | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 sing | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 them | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sing | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sing | aux |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 named | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 note | det |
| 17 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | Eleven peddlers's children | after other | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | could | children = child | a note | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme |
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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