Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 20
There was wealth, comfort, and happiness even among the domestic animals, for they were all well cared for, and well kept.
Who acts: wealth, domestic animals · What happens: be, care, keep · To what, where: wealth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealth, domestic animals), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comfort | punct |
| 5 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wealth | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 animals | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 animals | cc |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 animals | nsubj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 animals | advmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 animals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 animals | det |
| 12 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animals | amod |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cared | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 cared | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cared | aux:pass |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 cared | advmod |
| 20 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 animals | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 cared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kept | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kept | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 kept | advmod |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | wealth and comfort | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | care | past · passive | the domestic animals not said here | wealth | well property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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