Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 114
And he kept his word, and became a critic.
Who acts: youth · What happens: keep, become, word · To what, where: word, critic
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 word | nmod:poss |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 critic | det |
| 10 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | youth | youth's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | youth not said here | a critic | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | word | youth | nom word «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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