Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 118
Her portrait, which had been bought at the picture dealer's, went back again to his shop, and there it remained, for no one seemed to know her, or to care for the old picture.
Who acts: portrait, shop, one, door · What happens: buy, go back, remain, seem, know, care · To what, where: portrait, picture dealer, door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portrait, shop, one, door), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 2 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bought | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bought | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bought | aux:pass |
| 7 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 portrait | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dealer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dealer | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dealer | compound |
| 11 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bought | obl |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 dealer | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 portrait | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shop | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shop | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remained | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remained | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 remained | expl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remained | nsubj |
| 24 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seemed | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 seemed | mark |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seemed | nsubj |
| 29 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 remained | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 know | mark |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 seemed | xcomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 know | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 care | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 care | cc |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 care | mark |
| 36 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 know | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 picture | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 picture | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 picture | amod |
| 40 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 care | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · perfect · passive | door's portrait | the picture dealer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at dealer=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | door's portrait | again | to auction's shop result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shop=Result | |||
| 3 | remain | past | shop | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | no one | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | no one not said here | door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | care | to-infinitive | no one not said here | for the old picture | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for picture=Theme | ||||
| 7 | portray | door | nom portrait «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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