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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 40

He possessed a large fortune, and his wife had brought him wealth equal to his own, for she was the daughter of a rich and respected merchant.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: possess, bring, be · To what, where: large fortune, wife

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 (husband, 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

nsubjdetamodobjpunctccnmod:possnsubj:passauxconjobjobjamodcasenmod:possoblpunctcasensubjcopdetoblcasedetamodccconjnmodpunctrootHePRONpossessedVERBaDETlargeADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONwifeNOUNhadAUXbroughtVERBhimPRONwealthNOUNequalADJtoADPhisPRONownADJ,PUNCTforADPshePRONwasAUXtheDETdaughterNOUNofADPaDETrichADJandCCONJrespectedADJmerchantNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 possessednsubj
2possessedpossessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 fortunedet
4largelargeADJDegree=Pos5 fortuneamod
5fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing2 possessedobj
6,,PUNCT_11 broughtpunct
7andandCCONJ_11 broughtcc
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 wifenmod:poss
9wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 broughtnsubj:pass
10hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 broughtaux
11broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 possessedconj
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 broughtobj
13wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing11 broughtobj
14equalequalADJDegree=Pos13 wealthamod
15totoADP_17 owncase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 ownnmod:poss
17ownownADJDegree=Pos14 equalobl
18,,PUNCT_23 daughterpunct
19forforADP_23 daughtercase
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 daughternsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 daughtercop
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 daughterdet
23daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing11 broughtobl
24ofofADP_29 merchantcase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 merchantdet
26richrichADJDegree=Pos29 merchantamod
27andandCCONJ_28 respectedcc
28respectedrespectedADJDegree=Pos26 richconj
29merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing23 daughternmod
30..PUNCT_2 possessedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1possesspasthusbanda large fortunevn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortune=Theme
2bringpast · perfect · passivehusband's wifetree rules
3ispastwifefor the daughter; of a rich merchanttree 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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