Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 33
The new proprietor of the estate took a wife, and whom did he take?--The little goose-girl, who had always remained good and kind, and who looked as beautiful in her new clothes as if she had been a lady of high birth.
Who acts: new proprietor, proprietor, wife · What happens: take, remain, look, be · To what, where: wife, little goose girl, lady
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new proprietor, proprietor, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 proprietor | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 proprietor | amod |
| 3 | proprietor | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 estate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 estate | det |
| 6 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proprietor | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 take | obj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 girl | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 20 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 girl | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 goose | punct |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 remained | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 remained | aux |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 remained | advmod |
| 27 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 girl | conj |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 remained | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kind | cc |
| 30 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 good | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looked | cc |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 beautiful | case |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 looked | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 clothes | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 clothes | amod |
| 40 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 34 looked | obl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 lady | mark |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 lady | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 lady | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 lady | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 lady | cop |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 lady | det |
| 47 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looked | advcl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 birth | case |
| 49 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 birth | amod |
| 50 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lady | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the new proprietor of the estate | a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past · do-support | proprietor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument whom=Destination | |||||
| 3 | remain | past · perfect · passive | the little goose girl | always, good property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | look | past | as beautiful; in girl's new clothes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in clothes=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | past · perfect | wife | a lady | of high birth | tree rules |
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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