Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 78
The old childish story of the two cakes had a deep meaning for him.
Who acts: old childish story · What happens: have · To what, where: deep meaning
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (old childish story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 3 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cakes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cakes | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cakes | nummod |
| 8 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 story | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 meaning | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meaning | amod |
| 12 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meaning | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old childish story of the two cakes | a deep meaning | for Kjoge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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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