Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 13
That is the wife for me," he thought; "but she is too grand, and lives in a castle, while I have only a box to live in, five-and-twenty of us altogether, that is no place for her.
Who acts: That, lid, wife, I · What happens: be, think, live, have, live in · To what, where: wife, castle, box, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, lid, wife, I), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wife | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wife | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grand | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grand | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 grand | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grand | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grand | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 grand | advmod |
| 17 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lives | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lives | cc |
| 20 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grand | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 castle | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 castle | det |
| 23 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lives | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lives | parataxis |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 box | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 box | det |
| 30 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 live | mark |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 box | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 live | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 twenty | punct |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 twenty | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 twenty | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 twenty | cc |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 twenty | punct |
| 39 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 box | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 us | case |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 twenty | nmod |
| 42 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 27 have | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 place | punct |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 place | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 place | cop |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 place | det |
| 47 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | conj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 her | case |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 place | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the wife | for me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | lid | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | wife | grand property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | a castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | a box | altogether property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | |||
| 6 | live in | to-infinitive | I not said here | a box not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | that | no place | for wife | tree rules |
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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