Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 2
The merchant was a learned man, for his father had sent him to college, and he had passed his examination.
Who acts: merchant, father · What happens: learn, be, send, pass, examine · To what, where: learned man, man, college, examination
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, father), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 sent | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 man | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 college | case |
| 15 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 passed | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 man | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 examination | nmod:poss |
| 22 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the merchant | a learned man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | past · perfect | man's father | man | college | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to college=Destination | |||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect | father | father's examination | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme examination=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | examine | father | nom examination «act 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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