Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 51
Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain.
Who acts: Boots, one, upper part · What happens: be, see, have · To what, where: person, face, spurs, bargain
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 (Boots, one, upper part), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Boots | nmod:desc |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr. | flat |
| 3 | Boots | Boots | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 see | obl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 person | acl:relcl |
| 12 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 one | case |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 morocco | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 part | nmod:poss |
| 17 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 morocco | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 morocco | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 morocco | case |
| 21 | morocco | morocco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 has | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 has | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | conj |
| 26 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 has | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 bargain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bargain | det |
| 29 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Boots Mr. | a person and morocco | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | may | one | one's face | in a person and morocco | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | Boots's upper part | of morocco | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Boots | spurs | the bargain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/127/51/