Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 129

The Danish historian, Ludwig Holberg, who has written so many useful books and merry comedies, from which we can get such a good idea of his times and their people, tells in his letters of Marie Grubbe, where and how he met her.

Who acts: we, Danish historian, historian · What happens: write, get, tell, meet, letter · To what, where: Danish historian, good idea, letters, Ludwig, Marie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Danish historian, historian), 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	3 historian	det
2	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 historian	amod
3	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tells	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Ludwig	punct
5	Ludwig	Ludwig	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 historian	appos
6	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ludwig	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 written	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 written	nsubj:pass
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 written	aux
10	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 historian	acl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 books	amod
13	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 books	amod
14	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 written	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 comedies	cc
16	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comedies	amod
17	comedies	comedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 books	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 get	obl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 written	parataxis
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 idea	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 idea	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 idea	amod
27	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 times	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 times	nmod:poss
30	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 idea	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 people	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 people	nmod:poss
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 times	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 historian	punct
35	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 letters	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 letters	nmod:poss
38	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tells	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Marie	case
40	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 letters	nmod
41	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Marie	flat
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 met	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 met	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 met	cc
45	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 met	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 met	nsubj
47	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 Marie	acl:relcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 met	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	write	present · perfect · passive		the Danish historian		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient book=Topic
2	get	can	we	such good idea of historian's times and books's people		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent idea=Theme from which=Source
3	tell speech: assert	present	the Danish historian		historian's letters of Marie	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	meet	past	historian	Ludwig		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	letter		historian	Marie		nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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