Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 148
But now there sounds in it one of the proudest names of Denmark; then it was the name of a young, unknown student.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, name · To what, where: name, Denmark
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 (name), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sounds | advmod |
| 3 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 4 sounds | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sounds | nmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 names | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 names | det |
| 10 | proudest | proud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 names | amod |
| 11 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Denmark | case |
| 13 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 names | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 name | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 name | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 name | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 name | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 student | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 student | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 student | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 young | punct |
| 24 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 student | amod |
| 25 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | name | the name | then | of a young unknown student | tree rules | ||
| 2 | name | Denmark | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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