Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 38
In earlier times, by which name our aunt used to designate thirty years ago, she and the before-mentioned Herr Sivertsen had been younger.
Who acts: Herr · What happens: name, use, designate, mention, be · To what, where: aunt, Herr
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 (Herr), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 name | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 name | nsubj |
| 7 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 9 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | obj |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 aunt | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 designate | mark |
| 12 | designate | designate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | advcl |
| 13 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 designate | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 before | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 before | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 before | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 before | det |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 name | advmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 before | punct |
| 22 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 before | conj |
| 23 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mentioned | obj |
| 24 | Sivertsen | Sivertsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Herr | flat |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 younger | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 younger | cop |
| 27 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 Herr | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present | our aunt | time | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | our aunt not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | designate | to-infinitive | ago property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | participle | Herr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herr=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | Herr not said here | young 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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