Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 149
There was nothing they could call their own, excepting the clothes they wore.
Who acts: nothing, people · What happens: be, call, except, wear · To what, where: own, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (nothing, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 call | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 excepting | punct |
| 10 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 call | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clothes | det |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 excepting | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | could | people | people's own | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent own=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | except | gerund | people not said here | the clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | people | the clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
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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