Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 28
Any one was at liberty to make her an offer; were he a prince or a beggar, it mattered not to her.
Who acts: one, landlord, it · What happens: be, make, not matter · To what, where: liberty, offer, Heaven, prince
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, landlord, it), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liberty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liberty | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 liberty | case |
| 5 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 liberty | acl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 offer | det |
| 10 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 prince | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prince | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prince | nsubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liberty | appos |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 beggar | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 beggar | det |
| 18 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prince | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mattered | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mattered | nsubj |
| 21 | mattered | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liberty | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mattered | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mattered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 liberty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | any one | liberty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a offer | Heaven | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary offer=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | landlord | a prince or a beggar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not matter | past | it | Heaven | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer |
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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