Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 7
The family who dwelt in it were also very poor and humble, but they treasured the fear of God in their innermost hearts.
Who acts: family, houses · What happens: dwell, be, treasure, fear · To what, where: family, fear, innermost hearts, God
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 (family, houses), 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 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dwelt | nsubj |
| 4 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 family | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 poor | cop |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 poor | advmod |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 humble | cc |
| 12 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 poor | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 treasured | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 treasured | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 treasured | nsubj |
| 16 | treasured | treasure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 poor | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fear | det |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treasured | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fear | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hearts | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | innermost | innermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hearts | amod |
| 24 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 treasured | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | the family | family | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the family | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the family not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | treasure | past | houses = house | the fear of God | houses's innermost hearts | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | fear | God | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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