Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 61
They represented the counsellor and his wife, from whom the whole family descended. "
Who acts: portraits, whole family · What happens: represent, descend · To what, where: counsellor
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, whole family), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 represented | nsubj |
| 2 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 counsellor | det |
| 4 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 represented | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counsellor | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whom | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 descended | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 family | amod |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 descended | nsubj |
| 14 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 represented | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 represented | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past | portraits = portrait | the counsellor and baron's wife | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot counsellor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend | past | the whole family | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whom=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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