Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 60

Both portraits had many holes in them, because the baron's sons used the two old people as targets for their crossbows.

Who acts: portraits, sons · What happens: have, use · To what, where: many holes, two old people

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 (portraits, sons), 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	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 portraits	det
2	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 holes	amod
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 used	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 baron	det
11	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sons	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 baron	case
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 people	nummod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 used	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 targets	case
20	targets	target	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 used	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 crossbows	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 crossbows	nmod:poss
23	crossbows	crossbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 targets	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	both portraits	many holes				in holes = hole	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	use	past	the baron's sons	the two old people				as targets for portraits's crossbows	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent people=Duration as target=Attribute

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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