Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 28
Then he was chosen as the chief, and received the name of the Shepherd; and might choose his lamb from among the maidens.
What happens: choose, receive, name · To what, where: wood, name, lamb, maidens, Shepherd
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chosen | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chosen | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chosen | aux:pass |
| 4 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chosen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 received | cc |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chosen | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Shepherd | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Shepherd | det |
| 15 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 choose | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 choose | cc |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 choose | aux |
| 19 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 chosen | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 choose | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 maidens | case |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 maidens | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maidens | det |
| 25 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 choose | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | wood | then | as the chief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | past | the name of the Shepherd | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 3 | choose | might | wood's lamb | the maidens | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme from maiden=Source | ||||
| 4 | name | the Shepherd | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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