Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 91
Her benefactor in the machinery department, Herr Sivertsen, visited her every Sunday, but it was a long time from Sunday to Sunday.
Who acts: benefactor · What happens: visit, be · To what, where: aunt, long time
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 (benefactor), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 2 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 department | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 department | det |
| 5 | machinery | machinery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 department | compound |
| 6 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 benefactor | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Herr | punct |
| 8 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 benefactor | appos |
| 9 | Sivertsen | Sivertsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Herr | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 benefactor | punct |
| 11 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 visited | obj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Sunday | det |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 time | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Sunday | case |
| 23 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Sunday | case |
| 25 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | aunt's benefactor in the machinery department | aunt | sunday | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | benefactor | a long time | sunday | 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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