Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 22
Marie Grubbe used to call him her Soren, and that was a great favor, and was an advantage to Soren's father--poor Jon, who had one day committed a fault, and was to be punished by riding on the wooden horse.
Who acts: Marie, that, poor Jon, one day · What happens: use, call, be, have, commit, punish · To what, where: Marie, great favor, advantage, fault · 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 (Marie, that, poor Jon, one day), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 2 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 call | mark |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Soren | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 favor | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 favor | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 favor | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 favor | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 favor | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 favor | amod |
| 15 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advantage | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advantage | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 advantage | cop |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 advantage | det |
| 20 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 22 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Soren | case |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 advantage | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jon | punct |
| 26 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Jon | amod |
| 27 | Jon | Jon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 father | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Jon | acl:relcl |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 day | nummod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 committed | nsubj |
| 33 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 had | ccomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 fault | det |
| 35 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 committed | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 punished | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 punished | cc |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 punished | aux |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 punished | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 punished | aux:pass |
| 41 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 used | conj |
| 42 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 43 riding | mark |
| 43 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 punished | advcl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 horse | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 horse | det |
| 46 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 horse | amod |
| 47 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 riding | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Marie | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | Marie not said here | Marie | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | a great favor | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a advantage | to Soren's father | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | poor Jon | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | commit | past | one day | a fault | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | ||||
| 7 | punish | past · passive | Marie not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 8 | ride | gerund | Marie not said here | on the wooden horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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