Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 42
He was not a free scholar in the military school, neither was he provided with clothes or food.
Who acts: father · What happens: not be, provide · To what, where: free scholar, military school, father
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scholar | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scholar | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 scholar | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scholar | det |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scholar | amod |
| 6 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 school | det |
| 9 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 school | amod |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scholar | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 provided | punct |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 provided | cc:preconj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 provided | aux:pass |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 provided | nsubj |
| 15 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 scholar | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 provided | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 food | cc |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clothes | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scholar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | father | a free scholar | the military school | tree rules | |||
| 2 | provide | past · passive | father | with clothes or food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with clothes=Theme |
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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