Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 197
He had the green coverlet, for he felt the cold more than she, though he was born in Norway.
Who acts: law · What happens: have, feel, bear · To what, where: green coverlet, more, law, Norway
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 (law), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coverlet | det |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coverlet | amod |
| 5 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 felt | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 more | nsubj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 felt | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 she | case |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 more | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 born | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 felt | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Norway | case |
| 21 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 born | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | law | the green coverlet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | law | more | than Holberg | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | law | Norway | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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