Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 14
This was not true, for these things belonged to his master; but he was a boaster.
Who acts: This, things, collar · What happens: not be, belong, be · To what, where: boaster
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, things, collar), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 true | advmod |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 belonged | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 belonged | mark |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 belonged | nsubj |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 master | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 boaster | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 boaster | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 boaster | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 boaster | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boaster | det |
| 18 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | This | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | this things | to collar's master | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | collar | a boaster | tree rules |
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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