Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 7
The nurse punctually obeyed the gracious lady's orders.
Who acts: nurse, gracious lady · What happens: obey, order · To what, where: orders
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 (nurse, gracious 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | punctually | punctually | ADV | _ | 4 obeyed | advmod |
| 4 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 orders | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 9 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 obeyed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the nurse | the gracious lady's orders | punctually property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | the gracious lady | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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