Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 7
She had come from Scotland, and was of high birth, and was rich in land and in gold--a bride worth winning, said more than one of the young gentlemen; and their lady mothers said the same thing.
Who acts: company, lady mothers · What happens: come, be, win, say · To what, where: Scotland, land, same thing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (company, lady mothers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Scotland | case |
| 5 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 birth | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 birth | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 birth | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birth | case |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birth | amod |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rich | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rich | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rich | cop |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birth | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rich | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gold | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 bride | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bride | det |
| 23 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | conj |
| 24 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bride | amod |
| 25 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 worth | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 birth | parataxis |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 30 one | advmod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 more | fixed |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 said | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gentlemen | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gentlemen | det |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 gentlemen | amod |
| 34 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 said | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 said | cc |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 38 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mothers | compound |
| 39 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 said | nsubj |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 thing | det |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 thing | amod |
| 43 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 said | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | company | Scotland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from scotland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | of high birth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | land and gold and a bride | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | gentlemen's lady mothers | the same thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=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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