Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 31
Our aunt had an electric wire from the theatre to her room.
Who acts: aunt · What happens: have · To what, where: electric wire, theatre
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wire | det |
| 5 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wire | amod |
| 6 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 theatre | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 theatre | det |
| 9 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 room | nmod:poss |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 theatre | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Our aunt | a electric wire | the theatre to aunt's room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=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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