Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 144
Owe Ramel offered Waldemar Daa permission to remain in the house till the end of his life.
Who acts: you, Ramel · What happens: owe, offer, remain · To what, where: Waldemar permission, house
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 (you, Ramel), 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 | Owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Ramel | Ramel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Owe | ccomp |
| 4 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 permission | compound |
| 5 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Waldemar | flat |
| 6 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 remain | mark |
| 8 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | obl |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remain | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | Ramel | Waldemar permission | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | Ramel not said here | the house | till the end of Ramel's life | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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