Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 60
The boy had rosy cheeks, golden ringlets, and clear, blue eyes; he was the son of Anthony, a rich merchant; it was himself.
Who acts: boy, Denmark, grand · What happens: have, be · To what, where: rosy cheeks, son, Denmark
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 (boy, Denmark, grand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cheeks | amod |
| 5 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ringlets | punct |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ringlets | amod |
| 8 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cheeks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clear | cc |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clear | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 son | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 son | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 son | det |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Anthony | case |
| 21 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 merchant | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 merchant | det |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 merchant | amod |
| 25 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Anthony | appos |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 himself | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 himself | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 himself | cop |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 had | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the boy | rosy cheeks and golden ringlets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Denmark | the son | of Anthony | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | grand | Denmark | 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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