Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 38
They had two coats of arms on their carriage, a coat of arms for each of them, and the gracious lady had had this coat of arms embroidered on both sides of every bit of linen she had, and even on her nightcap and her dressing-bag.
Who acts: people, gracious lady, lady · What happens: have, embroider · To what, where: two coats, carriage, coat, arms, sides, linen
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 (people, gracious lady, lady), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 coats | nummod |
| 4 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coats | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coat | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coat | det |
| 12 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carriage | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 coat | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 arms | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 each | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lady | det |
| 22 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | aux |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | parataxis |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 coat | det |
| 27 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 arms | case |
| 29 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 coat | nmod |
| 30 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 arms | acl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 sides | case |
| 32 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 sides | det |
| 33 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 embroidered | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 bit | case |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 bit | det |
| 36 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sides | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 linen | case |
| 38 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bit | nmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 linen | acl:relcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 nightcap | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 nightcap | cc |
| 43 | even | even | ADV | _ | 46 nightcap | advmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 nightcap | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 nightcap | nmod:poss |
| 46 | nightcap | nightcap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | parataxis |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 bag | cc |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 bag | nmod:poss |
| 49 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bag | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 dressing | punct |
| 51 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nightcap | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | people | two coats of arms | people's carriage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | the gracious lady | this coat of arms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | arms not said here | both sides of every bit of linen | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination | ||||
| 4 | have | past | lady | linen not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=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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