Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 114
A pretty room and a good bed were provided for him, and yet his reception was not what he had expected and dreamed it would be.
Who acts: reception, Sweetly · What happens: provide, not be, expect, dream, be, receive · To what, where: pretty room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reception, Sweetly), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 room | amod |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bed | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bed | amod |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 room | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 provided | aux:pass |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 provided | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 expected | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 expected | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 what | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 reception | nmod:poss |
| 16 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 what | advmod |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 expected | aux |
| 22 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 provided | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dreamed | cc |
| 24 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 provided | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 be | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dreamed | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past · passive | a pretty room and a good bed | for Sweetly | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | Sweetly's reception | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | expect | past · perfect · passive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dream | past | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | be | would | reception | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | receive | Sweetly | nom reception «communication 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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