Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 16
He however assumed authority over her, and therefore when "Major-general-field-sergeant-commander Billy-goat's-legs" asked for the little shepherdess to be his wife, he nodded his head to show that he consented. "
Who acts: beard, field · What happens: assume, commander, ask, be, nod, show · To what, where: authority, goat's legs, wife, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, field), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assumed | nsubj |
| 2 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 assumed | advmod |
| 3 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assumed | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assumed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 commander | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commander | cc |
| 9 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 commander | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 commander | advmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 commander | punct |
| 12 | Major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 commander | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Major | punct |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 commander | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 field | punct |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commander | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 field | punct |
| 18 | sergeant | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commander | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 commander | punct |
| 20 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assumed | parataxis |
| 21 | Billy | Billy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 commander | appos |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Billy | punct |
| 23 | goat's | goat's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 legs | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 goat's | punct |
| 25 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 commander | nmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 commander | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 shepherdess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shepherdess | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shepherdess | amod |
| 31 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wife | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wife | cop |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shepherdess | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wife | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 nodded | nsubj |
| 38 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wife | acl:relcl |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nodded | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 show | mark |
| 42 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 nodded | advcl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 consented | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 consented | nsubj |
| 45 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 show | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 commander | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 commander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | beard | authority | over Chinaman; however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | commander in a quote | field | goat's legs | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | for the little shepherdess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | beard's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | nod | past | beard | beard's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | beard not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | consent | past | beard | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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