Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 116
But for dessert they produced a pea, on which a mouse belonging to the bridal pair had bitten the first letters of their names.
Who acts: friends, mouse · What happens: produce, belong, bite, letter, name · To what, where: pea, mouse, names
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, mouse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 produced | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 dessert | case |
| 3 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produced | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 produced | nsubj |
| 5 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pea | det |
| 7 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produced | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bitten | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bitten | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 mouse | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pair | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pair | det |
| 16 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pair | amod |
| 17 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belonging | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bitten | aux |
| 19 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 produced | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 letters | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 letters | amod |
| 22 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bitten | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 names | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 names | nmod:poss |
| 25 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 letters | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | friends = friend | a pea | for dessert | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pea=Result for dessert=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | belong | gerund | a mouse not said here | to the bridal pair | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bite | past · perfect · passive | a mouse | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient letter=Result | |||||
| 4 | letter | friends's names | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | friends = friend | 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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