Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 60
They questioned their father about the true, the beautiful, and the good, and he explained it to them in many ways.
Who acts: others, father · What happens: question, explain · To what, where: father, meaning, others, many ways
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, father), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 questioned | nsubj |
| 2 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 questioned | obj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 true | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 true | det |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 questioned | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beautiful | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 true | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 good | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 good | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 true | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 explained | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 explained | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 explained | nsubj |
| 18 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 questioned | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 explained | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 explained | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ways | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ways | amod |
| 24 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 explained | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | others = other | others's father | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | father | meaning | others = other | many ways | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to they=Recipient |
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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