Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 30
Anthony was one of the oldest of the clerks, and just the subject for a painter.
Who acts: Anthony · What happens: be · To what, where: one
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 (Anthony), 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 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oldest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oldest | det |
| 6 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 clerks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clerks | det |
| 9 | clerks | clerk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oldest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 subject | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 subject | cc |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 subject | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 subject | det |
| 14 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | appos |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 painter | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 painter | det |
| 17 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 subject | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Anthony | one | of the oldest | tree rules |
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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