Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 229
I have had the Stadtholder Gyldenlowe, the King's half-brother, for my husband; and afterwards I took Palle Dyre.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, take · To what, where: Stadtholder Gyldenlowe, Palle
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gyldenlowe | det |
| 5 | Stadtholder | Stadtholder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Gyldenlowe | compound |
| 6 | Gyldenlowe | Gyldenlowe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 brother | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 half | punct |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Gyldenlowe | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 husband | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 husband | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 22 took | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 23 | Palle | Palle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | Dyre | Dyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Palle | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | the Stadtholder Gyldenlowe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gyldenlowe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | Palle | afterwards property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument palle=Destination |
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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