Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 8
Her father was groom of the Chambers, which is a high office at court, and she knew it. "
Who acts: father, groom, girl · What happens: be, know · To what, where: groom, high office, court
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 (father, groom, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 groom | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 groom | cop |
| 4 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Chambers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chambers | det |
| 7 | Chambers | Chamber | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 groom | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 office | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 office | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 office | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 office | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 office | amod |
| 13 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 groom | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 office | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 groom | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 groom | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 groom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl's father | groom and a high office | of the Chambers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | groom and a high office | a high office | court | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | past | girl | court | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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