Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 54
Many presents arrived, and among them came a saddle of exquisite workmanship, a comfortable and costly saddle--one of the Princes had just such another.
Who acts: Many presents, Princes · What happens: arrive, come, have · To what, where: saddle
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 (Many presents, Princes), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 presents | amod |
| 2 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 workmanship | case |
| 12 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 workmanship | amod |
| 13 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saddle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saddle | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 saddle | det |
| 16 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 saddle | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 costly | cc |
| 18 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 comfortable | conj |
| 19 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saddle | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 saddle | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Princes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princes | det |
| 24 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 such | advmod |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 another | case |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Many presents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Many presents not said here | a saddle of exquisite workmanship and a comfortable saddle | among presents = present | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saddle=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | the Princes | such another | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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