Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 22
In the course of the year he won the little silver prize medal of the Academy, and afterwards he gained the great one too.
Who acts: Emily · What happens: win, prize, gain · To what, where: little silver, course, medal, great one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emily), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 course | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 won | nsubj |
| 8 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 silver | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 silver | amod |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 won | obj |
| 12 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 won | xcomp |
| 13 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prize | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Academy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Academy | det |
| 16 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 medal | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gained | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gained | cc |
| 19 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 gained | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gained | nsubj |
| 21 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 won | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gained | obj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 gained | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Emily | the little silver | the course of the year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prize | infinitive | Emily not said here | medal of the Academy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gain | past | Emily | the great one | afterwards property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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