Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 46
Hjalmar had one piece, and the princess the other, but Hjalmar's was the largest.
Who acts: Hjalmar · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one piece
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 (Hjalmar), 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 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 piece | nummod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 other | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 other | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 other | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 largest | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 largest | cc |
| 13 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 largest | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Hjalmar | case |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 largest | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 largest | det |
| 17 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hjalmar | one piece | the other obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Hjalmar | large property | tree rules |
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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