Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 104
And they receive his blessing, and celebrate their wedding, and all the pieces of furniture sing in chorus,
Who acts: son, lamb · What happens: receive, celebrate, bless, wed · To what, where: blessing, chorus, wedding
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, lamb), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 receive | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receive | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 celebrate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 celebrate | cc |
| 8 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 receive | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 celebrate | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pieces | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pieces | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 pieces | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pieces | det |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 receive | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sing | case |
| 17 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sing | compound |
| 18 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 chorus | case |
| 20 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receive | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | son | lamb's blessing | chorus | all pieces of furniture sing obl | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme in chorus=Location | ||
| 2 | celebrate | infinitive | son not said here | son's wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bless | lamb | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | wed | son | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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