Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 71
Then he wrote the name of his betrothed, his own name, and that of the ship.
Who acts: mate · What happens: write, betroth, name · To what, where: name, betrothed own name
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 (mate), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 name | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 name | amod |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 that | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 that | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrote | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ship | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 that | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | mate | the name of mate's betrothed own name | then | that obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||
| 2 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | name | mate's betrothed own name | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | name | mate | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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