Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 58
This boast cost him his life; for when he went home Niels followed him, and cut his throat, intending to rob the murdered man of the gold, which did not exist.
Who acts: boast, Niels, gold · What happens: cost, go, follow, cut, intend, rob · To what, where: life, Martin, throat, murdered man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boast, Niels, gold), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 boast | det |
| 2 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cost | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cost | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cost | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cost | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 throat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 intending | punct |
| 22 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 cut | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 rob | mark |
| 24 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 intending | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rob | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gold | det |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 exist | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 exist | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 exist | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 exist | advmod |
| 35 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gold | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past | this boast | Martin's life | Martin | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 2 | go | past | boast | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Niels | Martin | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cut | past | Niels's throat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product | |||||
| 5 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | rob not said to happen | to-infinitive | the murdered man of the gold | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Source | |||||
| 7 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | not exist | past · do-support | the gold | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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