Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 80
"That is really a great attention from a family of such position," said the porter's wife; and George was sent up stairs to show himself in his confirmation clothes, with the hymn-book in his hand.
Who acts: That, great attention · What happens: be, say, send up, show · To what, where: great attention, family, wife, George · 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 (That, great attention), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 attention | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 attention | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 attention | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 attention | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 attention | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 attention | amod |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attention | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 position | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 position | amod |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 attention | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 attention | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 porter | det |
| 18 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 porter | case |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 George | cc |
| 23 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sent | aux:pass |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 sent | compound:prt |
| 27 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sent | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 show | mark |
| 29 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sent | advcl |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 show | iobj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 clothes | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 clothes | compound |
| 34 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 show | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 book | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 book | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 book | det |
| 38 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 book | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 hymn | punct |
| 40 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 show | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 hand | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hand | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 book | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a great attention | a family of such position | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a great attention | the porter's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | send up | past · passive | George | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination stair=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | George | with the hymn book in George's hand; in George's confirmation clothes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in clothes=Topic |
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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