Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 158
The man is in custody for a crime, and that's why she manages the ferry-boat herself--she has fists of her own."
Who acts: man, custody, captain · What happens: be, manage, have · To what, where: custody, ferry boat, fists
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 (man, custody, captain), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 custody | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 custody | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 custody | case |
| 5 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 crime | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crime | det |
| 8 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 custody | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 why | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 why | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 why | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 why | cop |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 custody | acl:relcl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 manages | nsubj |
| 15 | manages | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 why | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 17 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boat | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ferry | punct |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 manages | obj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 manages | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 manages | conj |
| 24 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 has | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 own | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 own | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fists | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 custody | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 custody | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the man | custody | for a crime | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | custody | custody not said here | why property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | manage | present | captain | the ferry boat | captain obl | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | present | captain | fists of captain's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=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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