Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 15
They were a rich, noble family, born in affluence and nurtured in luxury.
Who acts: cellars · What happens: be, bear, nurture · To what, where: rich noble family, affluence, luxury
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), 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 | 7 family | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 family | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 family | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 family | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 affluence | case |
| 11 | affluence | affluence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nurtured | cc |
| 13 | nurtured | nurture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 born | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 luxury | case |
| 15 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nurtured | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 family | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cellars = cellar | a rich noble family | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | a rich noble family not said here | affluence | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | nurture | participle | luxury | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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