Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 52
They were betrothed, and they have had their wedding; it is now a week ago.
Who acts: trees, wedding · What happens: betroth, have, be, wed · To what, where: trees, wedding
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, wedding), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 betrothed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 3 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 betrothed | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ago | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ago | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ago | cop |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ago | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 week | det |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 betrothed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past · passive | trees = tree | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | trees = tree | trees's wedding | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | wedding | now; week | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wed | trees = tree | nom wedding «event 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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