Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 6

He had no one in the wide world now; neither father, mother, brother, nor sister.

Who acts: John · What happens: have · To what, where: one, wide world

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 (John), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
11	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mother	punct
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brother	punct
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sister	punct
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 sister	cc
19	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	John	no one		the wide world	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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