Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 40

The children (for they had children) all received the best education, but they were not all equally clever, as is the case in all families.

Who acts: mistress, children · What happens: have, receive, be · To what, where: children, best education, families

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 (mistress, children), 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	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 received	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 had	case
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 children	acl:relcl
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 received	advmod
10	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 education	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 education	amod
13	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 received	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clever	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 clever	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 clever	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 clever	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 all	advmod
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 clever	advmod
20	equally	equally	ADV	_	21 clever	advmod
21	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 received	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 case	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 case	case
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 case	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 case	det
26	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 clever	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 families	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 families	det
29	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 case	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	mistress	children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	receive	past	the children	the best education		all property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent education=Theme
3	is	past	mistress			all, clever, equally property	tree rules
4	is	present			all families	as the case	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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