Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, sentence 5
He brought enormous wealth home from the conquered towns, and gradually accumulated in his residence riches which could nowhere be equalled.
Who acts: fortune · What happens: bring, conquer, accumulate, equall · To what, where: enormous wealth, conquered towns, residence riches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wicked Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wealth | amod |
| 4 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 towns | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 towns | det |
| 8 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 towns | amod |
| 9 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 accumulated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 accumulated | cc |
| 12 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 13 accumulated | advmod |
| 13 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 riches | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 riches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 riches | compound |
| 17 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 accumulated | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 equalled | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 equalled | aux |
| 20 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 equalled | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 equalled | aux:pass |
| 22 | equalled | equall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 riches | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | fortune | enormous wealth | the conquered towns | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | conquer | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | accumulate | participle | fortune's residence riches | gradually property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | equall | could · passive | fortune's residence riches | nowhere property | tree rules |
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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