Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 33
His first colored pictures he presented to Emily.
Who acts: first pictures · What happens: be, present · To what, where: Emily
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 (first pictures), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pictures | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pictures | amod |
| 3 | colored | color | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 first | cop |
| 4 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 presented | nsubj |
| 6 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Emily | case |
| 8 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 presented | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | first property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | present | past | penny's first pictures | Emily | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to emily=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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