Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 51
The daughter of the house, a beautiful little girl, was confirmed, and she had a friend who was confirmed, too.
Who acts: girl · What happens: confirm, have · To what, where: daughter, friend
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 (girl), 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 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confirmed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 daughter | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 confirmed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 confirmed | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 22 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 friend | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 too | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 confirmed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | past · passive | the daughter of the house and a beautiful little girl | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | a friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 3 | confirm | past · passive | a friend | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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