Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 56
At home in their wooden cottage these boys had an elder brother, a sailor, who was about to start on a long voyage.
Who acts: boys, sailor · What happens: have, be, start · To what, where: elder brother, home, long voyage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, sailor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 home | case |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cottage | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cottage | amod |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 home | nmod |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 boys | det |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sailor | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sailor | det |
| 15 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 about | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 about | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 about | cop |
| 19 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sailor | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 start | mark |
| 21 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 about | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 voyage | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voyage | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voyage | amod |
| 25 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 start | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this boys | a elder brother | home in boys's wooden cottage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a sailor | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | a sailor not said here | a long voyage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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