Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 54
She was engaged to sing at a concert, and she had already earned money by singing, out of which she sent her dear neighbors at Kjoge a whole dollar, for them to make merry on Christmas eve, and they were to drink her health.
Who acts: letter, neighbors · What happens: engage, sing, earn, send, make, drink · To what, where: letter, concert, money, dear neighbors, Kjoge, merry
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, neighbors), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 engaged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | aux:pass |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sing | mark |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 engaged | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 concert | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 concert | det |
| 8 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 earned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 earned | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 earned | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 earned | aux |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 earned | advmod |
| 14 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 engaged | conj |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earned | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 singing | mark |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 earned | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sent | punct |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sent | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sent | nsubj |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | parataxis |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 neighbors | amod |
| 26 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sent | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Kjoge | case |
| 28 | Kjoge | Kjoge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dollar | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dollar | amod |
| 31 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sent | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 make | nsubj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sent | advcl |
| 37 | merry | merry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 eve | case |
| 39 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 eve | compound |
| 40 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 drink | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 drink | cc |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 drink | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 drink | aux |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 drink | mark |
| 46 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 engaged | parataxis |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 health | nmod:poss |
| 48 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 drink | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | letter | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | a concert | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at concert=Location | |||||
| 3 | earn | past · perfect | letter | money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | letter not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | send | past | letter | letter's dear neighbors | Kjoge | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Destination dollar=Theme | |||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | neighbors = neighbor | merry | Christmas eve | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset merry=Product | |||
| 7 | drink | past | neighbors = neighbor | letter's health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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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