Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 33
His ancestors were from Thuringia, and had lived in the town of Eisenach, close by Wartburg.
Who acts: ancestors · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Thuringia, town
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 (ancestors), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Thuringia | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Thuringia | cop |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Thuringia | case |
| 5 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | aux |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Thuringia | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Eisenach | case |
| 14 | Eisenach | Eisenach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 town | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 town | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Wartburg | case |
| 18 | Wartburg | Wartburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 close | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thuringia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Anthony's ancestors | Thuringia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | Thuringia not said here | the town of Eisenach | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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