Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 3
And he told me a story about the glasses, and this story had a very deep meaning.
Who acts: Ole, story · What happens: tell, have · To what, where: story, me, deep meaning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole, story), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 glasses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glasses | det |
| 9 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 story | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 meaning | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 deep | advmod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meaning | amod |
| 18 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Ole | a story | me | about the glasses | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | have | past | this story | a deep meaning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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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