Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 113
The poor man, who was exhibiting the dolls, was much annoyed, and quite sad about his queen; she was the prettiest doll he had, and the bull-dog had broken her head and shoulders off.
Who acts: poor man, queen, man · What happens: exhibit, be, have, break off · To what, where: dolls, prettiest doll, bull dog
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, queen, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 annoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exhibiting | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 exhibiting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exhibiting | aux |
| 7 | exhibiting | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dolls | det |
| 9 | dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exhibiting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 annoyed | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 annoyed | advmod |
| 13 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sad | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sad | cc |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 sad | advmod |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 annoyed | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 queen | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 queen | nmod:poss |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sad | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 doll | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 doll | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 doll | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 doll | det |
| 25 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 doll | amod |
| 26 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 annoyed | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 doll | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 broken | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 broken | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 dog | det |
| 32 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dog | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 bull | punct |
| 34 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 broken | aux |
| 36 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 annoyed | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 broken | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shoulders | cc |
| 40 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 head | conj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 broken | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhibit | past · progressive | the poor man | the dolls | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the poor man | annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the poor man not said here | about man's queen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | queen | the prettiest doll | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | man | the prettiest doll not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Patient | ||||
| 6 | break off | past · perfect · passive | the bull dog | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient head=Result |
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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