Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 129
Your sister's large doll, that is dressed like a man, and is called Herman, intends to marry the doll Bertha.
Who acts: large doll · What happens: dress, call, intend, marry · To what, where: large doll, doll · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (large doll), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doll | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sister | case |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 doll | amod |
| 5 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 intends | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 dressed | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dressed | aux:pass |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doll | acl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dressed | conj |
| 17 | Herman | Herman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 doll | punct |
| 19 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intends | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 doll | det |
| 23 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marry | obj |
| 24 | Bertha | Bertha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 doll | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 intends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present · passive | Your sister's large doll | like a man | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | intend | present | Your sister's large doll | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your sister's large doll not said here | the doll | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=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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