Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 6
She knew every fowl and every duck from the moment it crept out of the shell; and she was fond of her fowls and her ducks, and proud of the stately house that had been built for them.
Who acts: One, house · What happens: know, creep out, be, build · To what, where: fowl, shell, stately house
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 (One, house), 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 | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fowl | det |
| 4 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 duck | cc |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 duck | det |
| 7 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fowl | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 duck | nmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 moment | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 shell | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 shell | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shell | det |
| 16 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 fond | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fond | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fond | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fond | cop |
| 21 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fowls | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fowls | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fond | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ducks | cc |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ducks | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fowls | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 proud | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 proud | cc |
| 30 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fond | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 33 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 proud | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 built | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 built | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 built | aux:pass |
| 38 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 house | acl:relcl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 built | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | One | every fowl and every duck from the moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fowl=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | creep out | past | house | the shell | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | One | of One's fowls and One's ducks; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | One not said here | of the stately house | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | build | past · perfect · passive | the stately house | for fowls = fowl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for they=Asset |
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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