Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 26
She would have her way, and she got her way, and Soren's father was taken down.
Who acts: chain · What happens: have, get, take down · To what, where: way, father
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 (chain), 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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taken | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taken | cc |
| 14 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Soren | case |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 taken | aux:pass |
| 18 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 got | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 taken | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | chain | chain's way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | chain | chain's way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take down | past · passive | Soren's father | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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