Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 136
The students, even those who had board and lodging gratis, left the city.
Who acts: students · What happens: have, lodge, leave · To what, where: board, gratis, city
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 (students), 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 students | det |
| 2 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 left | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 those | advmod |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 students | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 8 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lodging | cc |
| 10 | lodging | lodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 board | conj |
| 11 | gratis | gratis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lodging | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 students | punct |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | board | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lodge | gerund | gratis | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme gratis=Location | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the students those | the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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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