Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 1
From my father I received the best inheritance, namely a "good temper." "
Who acts: I · What happens: receive · To what, where: best inheritance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 father | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 received | nsubj |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inheritance | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 inheritance | amod |
| 8 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 namely | punct |
| 10 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inheritance | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temper | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 temper | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temper | amod |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 namely | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 namely | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 namely | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | I | the best inheritance | from my father | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent inheritance=Theme from father=Source |
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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