Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 43
The General's lady kept a diary, and in this diary was recorded every ball she attended and every visit she received.
Who acts: lady · What happens: keep, record, attend, receive · To what, where: diary, ball, visit
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 (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 General | det |
| 2 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 General | case |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 diary | det |
| 7 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 recorded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 recorded | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 diary | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 diary | det |
| 12 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recorded | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 recorded | aux:pass |
| 14 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 kept | conj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 ball | det |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recorded | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attended | nsubj |
| 18 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ball | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 visit | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 visit | det |
| 21 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 recorded | conj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 received | nsubj |
| 23 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 visit | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the General's lady | a diary | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme | ||||
| 2 | record | past · passive | the General's lady not said here | every ball | this diary | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: ball=Theme in diary=Destination | |||
| 3 | attend | past | lady | every ball not said here | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ball=Goal | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | lady | every visit not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=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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