Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 8
Mr. George has been elected Professor of the Fifth Class, number Eight."
What happens: elect · To what, where: George
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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 George | nmod:desc |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 elected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 elected | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 elected | aux:pass |
| 5 | elected | elect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 elected | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Class | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Class | det |
| 9 | Fifth | Fifth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Class | compound |
| 10 | Class | Class | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Professor | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Professor | appos |
| 13 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 number | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 elected | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 elected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elect | present · perfect · passive | George Mr. | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme professor=Attribute |
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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