Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 53
He had been born the day after his daughter, but before her of course--many years before her.
What happens: bear · To what, where: General
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 years | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 years | cc |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 of | nmod:poss |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 before | conj |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 of | fixed |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 years | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 years | amod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 years | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · perfect · passive | General | after General's daughter; day; year | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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