Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 33
From him she used to receive a short and concise description of every piece.
Who acts: telegram · What happens: use, receive, describe · To what, where: short description, piece
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 (telegram), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8756): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 receive | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 receive | mark |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 description | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 description | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 concise | cc |
| 10 | concise | concise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 short | conj |
| 11 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 piece | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 description | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | telegram | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | telegram not said here | a short description of every piece | from Sivertsen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent description=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 3 | describe | every piece | nom description «communication transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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