Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 36
They were five brothers, all born fingers; they kept very proudly together, though they were of different lengths.
Who acts: fingers · What happens: be, bear, keep · To what, where: five brothers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fingers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brothers | cop |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fingers | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 fingers | det |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fingers | amod |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brothers | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brothers | parataxis |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 proudly | advmod |
| 13 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 kept | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lengths | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 lengths | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lengths | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lengths | cop |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lengths | case |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lengths | amod |
| 21 | lengths | length | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fingers = finger | five brothers and all born fingers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | keep | past | fingers = finger | proudly, together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | fingers = finger | of different lengths | 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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