Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 29
Which of the children whose prattle we have described, could call this house his own?
Who acts: we, children · What happens: describe, call, prattle · To what, where: prattle, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, children), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 children | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 call | nsubj |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 prattle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prattle | prattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 described | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 described | aux |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 prattle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 call | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · perfect | we | the children the children prattle's prattle's prattle not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prattle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | could | the children the children the children's prattle's prattle | this house | own property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient | |||
| 3 | prattle | the children the children prattle's prattle | nom prattle «communication intransitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/29/