Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 53
About Christmas came a letter from her father to Knud's parents, which stated that they were going on very well in Copenhagen, and mentioning particularly that Joanna's beautiful voice was likely to bring her a brilliant fortune in the future.
Who acts: letter, parents, beautiful voice · What happens: come, state, go on, mention, be, bring · To what, where: Copenhagen, brilliant fortune, letter, future · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (letter, parents, beautiful voice), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 Christmas | case |
| 2 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letter | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 10 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Knud | case |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stated | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stated | nsubj |
| 15 | stated | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 parents | acl:relcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stated | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 going | compound:prt |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 well | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 going | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Copenhagen | case |
| 24 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 likely | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 likely | cc |
| 27 | mentioning | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 likely | csubj |
| 28 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 27 mentioning | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 likely | mark |
| 30 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 voice | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Joanna | case |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voice | amod |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 likely | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 likely | cop |
| 35 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bring | mark |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 likely | xcomp |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bring | obj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 fortune | det |
| 40 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fortune | amod |
| 41 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 future | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 future | det |
| 44 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a letter from letter's father to Knud's parents | about Christmas | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about christmas=Location | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | past | Knud's parents | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go on | past · progressive | parents = parent | Copenhagen | well property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in copenhagen=Location | |||
| 4 | mention speech: other | gerund | particularly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Joanna's beautiful voice | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring | to-infinitive | Joanna's beautiful voice not said here | a brilliant fortune | letter | the future | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination fortune=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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