Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 59
And though he was well spoken of, did he not also wish to kill the architect who built the castle for him, with its thick walls and tower, at the point where the Skjaerumaa falls into the bay?
Who acts: Sir, architect, Skjaerumaa · What happens: speak, not wish, kill, build, fall · To what, where: Sir, architect, point, castle, bay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, architect, Skjaerumaa), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wish | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoken | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | aux:pass |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 spoken | advmod |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wish | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spoken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoken | punct |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 architect | det |
| 17 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 built | nsubj |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 architect | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 built | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 built | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 walls | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 walls | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 walls | nmod:poss |
| 27 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 walls | amod |
| 28 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tower | cc |
| 30 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 walls | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 point | punct |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 point | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 point | det |
| 34 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 falls | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Skjaerumaa | det |
| 37 | Skjaerumaa | Skjaerumaa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 falls | nsubj |
| 38 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 point | acl:relcl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 bay | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 bay | det |
| 41 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 falls | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | Sir | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | Sir | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sir not said here | the architect | the point | with castle's thick walls and tower | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent architect=Patient with wall=Instrument | ||
| 4 | build | past | the architect | the castle | for Sir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent castle=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | fall | present | the Skjaerumaa | into the bay result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bay=Result |
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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