Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 221
That man was the mayor himself, who had already made a comfortable home for his wife and eleven children, by his industry.
Who acts: man, industry · What happens: be, make · To what, where: mayor
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 (man, industry), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mayor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mayor | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mayor | det |
| 5 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 mayor | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mayor | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 13 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 home | amod |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 home | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 children | cc |
| 19 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 children | nummod |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wife | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 industry | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 industry | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 industry | nmod:poss |
| 24 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl:agent |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mayor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that man | the mayor | Anthony nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | Anthony's industry | the mayor | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary home=Product for wife=Asset |
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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