Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 53
When the work is finished I will purchase it," continued the rich noble.
Who acts: I · What happens: finish, purchase, continue · To what, where: work, rich noble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 work | det |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 purchase | advcl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 purchase | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 purchase | aux |
| 8 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 purchase | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 purchase | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noble | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 noble | amod |
| 15 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 purchase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · passive | the work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | purchase | future | I | work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | continue in a quote | past | the rich noble | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent noble=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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