Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 39
"We were distributed, by the King's command, from the council-houses through the various towns, and proclamation was made of our great value; but no one believed in it, or even understood how to plant us.
Who acts: one, King, our · What happens: distribute, make, believe, understand, plant, command · To what, where: We, council houses, proclamation, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King, our), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 distributed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 distributed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distributed | aux:pass |
| 4 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 command | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distributed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 houses | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 houses | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 houses | det |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 houses | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 council | punct |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 distributed | obl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 towns | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 towns | det |
| 19 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 towns | amod |
| 20 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 distributed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 23 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 distributed | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 value | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 value | nmod:poss |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 value | amod |
| 29 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 believed | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 believed | cc |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 believed | nsubj |
| 34 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 distributed | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 believed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 understood | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 understood | cc |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 40 understood | advmod |
| 40 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distributed | conj |
| 41 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 plant | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 plant | mark |
| 43 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 understood | xcomp |
| 44 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 plant | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distribute in a quote | past · passive | We | the council houses | through the various towns | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | past · passive | proclamation | of our great value | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | participle | no one | proclamation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | understand in a quote | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | plant in a quote | to-infinitive | us | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||||
| 6 | command in a quote | the King | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | value in a quote | our | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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