Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 215
It was on Twelfth Night, the evening of the festival of the Three Kings, Mother Soren lit up for Holberg a three-king candle, that is, a tallow candle with three wicks, which she had herself prepared.
Who acts: bow, Mother, that, three wicks · What happens: be, light up, have, prepare · To what, where: king candle, tallow candle, three wicks
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 (bow, Mother, that, three wicks), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Night | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Night | case |
| 4 | Twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Night | amod |
| 5 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 evening | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Night | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 festival | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 festival | det |
| 11 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evening | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kings | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Kings | det |
| 14 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kings | compound |
| 15 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 festival | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Night | punct |
| 17 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | nsubj |
| 18 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mother | flat |
| 19 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 lit | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Holberg | case |
| 22 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 candle | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 king | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 candle | compound |
| 27 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 candle | punct |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 candle | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 candle | cop |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 is | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 candle | det |
| 33 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 candle | compound |
| 34 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lit | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 wicks | case |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 wicks | nummod |
| 37 | wicks | wick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 candle | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 had | obj |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wicks | acl:relcl |
| 42 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 had | obj |
| 43 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 had | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bow | on Twelfth Night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light up | past | Mother | a king candle | for Holberg | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for holberg=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a tallow candle | with three wicks | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | mother | three wicks | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prepare | participle | three wicks not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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