Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 12
Their names were Kay and Gerda.
Who acts: names, peas · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Kay
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, peas), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 names | nmod:poss |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Kay | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kay | cop |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Gerda | cc |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kay | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | peas's names | Kay and Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | peas = pea | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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