Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 62
But they did not properly belong to our family," said one of the boys; "he was a pedlar and she kept the geese.
Who acts: portraits, one, baron, wife · What happens: not belong, say, be, keep · To what, where: family, pedlar, geese · Speech: someone speaks here
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, one, baron, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 belong | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 belong | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 belong | advmod |
| 5 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 6 belong | advmod |
| 6 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 family | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 family | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 belong | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 boys | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boys | det |
| 16 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 pedlar | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pedlar | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pedlar | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pedlar | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pedlar | det |
| 22 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belong | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kept | nsubj |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pedlar | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 geese | det |
| 27 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kept | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | past · do-support | portraits = portrait | properly property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | one of the boys | our family | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | baron | a pedlar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | wife | the geese | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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