Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 1
There was once a king's son who had a larger and more beautiful collection of books than any one else in the world, and full of splendid copper-plate engravings.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, have · To what, where: larger collection
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 collection | det |
| 11 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 collection | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 larger | conj |
| 15 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 books | case |
| 17 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 collection | nmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 books | nmod |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 one | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 full | cc |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 engravings | case |
| 29 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 engravings | amod |
| 30 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 plate | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 copper | punct |
| 32 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 engravings | compound |
| 33 | engravings | engraving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 full | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king's son | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a king's son | a larger collection of books than any one in the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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