Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 38
The young man was sent by his Sovereign as ambassador to the Russian Court.
Who acts: Sovereign · What happens: send · To what, where: young man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sovereign), 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 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sovereign | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 ambassador | case |
| 10 | ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Court | det |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Court | amod |
| 14 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ambassador | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | husband's Sovereign | the young man | as ambassador to the Russian Court | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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