Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 39
At that time he had already been connected with the machinery, and was, as she said, her benefactor.
Who acts: aunt · What happens: connect, be · To what, where: 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 connected | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 connected | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 connected | aux:pass |
| 8 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 machinery | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 machinery | det |
| 11 | machinery | machinery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 connected | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 benefactor | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | vocative |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 connected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | past · perfect · passive | Herr | time | with the machinery | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with machinery=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | aunt | aunt's benefactor vocative; say 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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