Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 21
The pictures he had drawn in his childhood gave occasion for it.
Who acts: Count, pictures · What happens: draw, give · To what, where: pictures, childhood, occasion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count, pictures), 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 pictures | det |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drawn | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drawn | aux |
| 5 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 childhood | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drawn | obl |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · perfect | Count | the pictures not said here | Count's childhood | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme in childhood=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | past | the pictures | occasion | for occasion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme for it=Asset |
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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