Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 95
But then this wonderful ointment could not be bought at a chemist's.
What happens: not buy · To what, where: wonderful ointment, chemist
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 bought | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 bought | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ointment | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ointment | amod |
| 5 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bought | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bought | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bought | aux:pass |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 chemist | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chemist | det |
| 12 | chemist | chemist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 chemist | case |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | could · passive | this wonderful ointment | a chemist | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at chemist=Asset |
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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