Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 209
She did not belong to the island of Falster, he said; she had a little property of her own at one time.
Who acts: few, collector · What happens: not belong, say, have · To what, where: little property · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (few, collector), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 belong | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 belong | advmod |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belong | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Falster | case |
| 9 | Falster | Falster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 island | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 belong | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 property | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 property | amod |
| 18 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 own | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 own | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 property | nmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 time | nummod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | past · do-support | few | to the island of Falster | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | collector | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | few | a little property of few's own | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=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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