Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 73
On his confirmation day, George received a great pinchbeck watch from his godfather, the old iron monger's shopman, the richest of his godfathers.
Who acts: George · What happens: receive · To what, where: great pinchbeck watch, godfather
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 watch | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 watch | amod |
| 10 | pinchbeck | pinchbeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | compound |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 godfather | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 godfather | nmod:poss |
| 14 | godfather | godfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shopman | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 monger | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 monger | amod |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 monger | compound |
| 19 | monger | monger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shopman | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 monger | case |
| 21 | shopman | shopman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 richest | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 richest | det |
| 24 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 watch | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 godfathers | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 godfathers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | godfathers | godfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 richest | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | George | a great pinchbeck watch and the old iron monger's shopman | tailor's godfather | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent watch=Theme from godfather=Source |
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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