Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 93
It was a child employed in the ballet, one that certainly wanted feeding.
Who acts: child · What happens: be, employ, want · To what, where: child, ballet, feeding
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 (child), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 child | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 child | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 child | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ballet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ballet | det |
| 8 | ballet | ballet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ballet | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 wanted | advmod |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | child | a child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | employ | participle | a child not said here | the ballet | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want | past | feeding | certainly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feeding=Theme |
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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