Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 186
"He killed a sailor of Dragor by mischance, and for that he has to work for three years in irons.
Who acts: husband · What happens: kill, have, work · To what, where: sailor
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 (husband), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sailor | det |
| 5 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Dragor | case |
| 7 | Dragor | Dragor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sailor | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 mischance | case |
| 9 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 has | case |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 for | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 work | mark |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 has | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 work | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 irons | case |
| 22 | irons | iron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 work | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | husband | a sailor of Dragor | by mischance | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | husband | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | husband not said here | year | in irons | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in iron=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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