Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 14
They had three children, daughters, fair and delicate maidens--Ida, Joanna, and Anna Dorothea; I have never forgotten their names.
Who acts: cellars, I · What happens: have, not forget, name · To what, where: three children, names
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cellars, I), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 children | nummod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughters | punct |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 maidens | punct |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maidens | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delicate | cc |
| 10 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fair | conj |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ida | punct |
| 13 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 maidens | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Joanna | punct |
| 15 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ida | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anna | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Anna | cc |
| 18 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ida | conj |
| 19 | Dorothea | Dorothea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Anna | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgotten | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 forgotten | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 forgotten | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 forgotten | advmod |
| 24 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 names | nmod:poss |
| 26 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 forgotten | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | cellars = cellar | three children and daughters and fair maidens | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not forget | present · perfect | I | cellars's names | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | cellars = cellar | nom name «communication 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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