Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 139
The overseer of the mint struck coins for me.
Who acts: overseer · What happens: strike · To what, where: coins
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overseer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 overseer | det |
| 2 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mint | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mint | det |
| 5 | mint | mint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 overseer | nmod |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 struck | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the overseer of the mint | coins | for me | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient |
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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