Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 12
Father was right, and mother was right--truth holds the world together.
Who acts: Father, mother, truth · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, mother, truth), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 right | cc |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 right | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 right | cop |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | parataxis |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 holds | punct |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holds | nsubj |
| 11 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holds | obj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 holds | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Father | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mother | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | truth | the world | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
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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