Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 109
But the most beautiful of all was the castle, drawn on one of the leaves, and which he called "Emily's Castle."
Who acts: George · What happens: be, draw, call · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 beautiful | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beautiful | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 castle | det |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 castle | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawn | punct |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 castle | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 drawn | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 called | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Castle | punct |
| 23 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Emily | case |
| 25 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of all castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | participle | all castle not said here | on one of the leaves | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | call | past | George | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=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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