Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 95
In autumn it produced two apples, one for Molly and one for Anthony; it could not well do less.
Who acts: sun · What happens: produce, not do · To what, where: two apples
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 (sun), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 produced | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 produced | nsubj |
| 4 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 apples | nummod |
| 6 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 produced | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 apples | appos |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Molly | case |
| 10 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 one | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Anthony | case |
| 14 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 produced | conj |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | sun | two apples | autumn | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Result | |||
| 2 | not do | could | sun | less, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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