Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 19
My sons have plenty of business on hand; they are playing at shuttlecock with the clouds up yonder in the king's hall," and she pointed upwards.
Who acts: sons, questions, woman · What happens: have, play up, point · To what, where: plenty, shuttlecock
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 (sons, questions, woman), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 business | case |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 business | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 playing | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 playing | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 playing | aux |
| 12 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 shuttlecock | case |
| 14 | shuttlecock | shuttlecock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 playing | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 clouds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clouds | det |
| 17 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 playing | obl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 playing | compound:prt |
| 19 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 24 hall | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hall | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 playing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pointed | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pointed | nsubj |
| 29 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 30 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 29 pointed | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | My sons | plenty of business on hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | play up | present · progressive | questions = question | shuttlecock | with the clouds; in the king's hall | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloud=Theme | |||
| 3 | point in a quote | past | woman | upwards property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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