Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 60
And they were locked up; for the admiral, who had been sent by the king to inspect the new ship, and make arrangements for its purchase, was loud in admiration of these beautiful horses.
Who acts: king, admiral · What happens: lock up, send, inspect, make, be, purchase · To what, where: horses, admiral, new ship, arrangements, admiration, beautiful horses
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 (king, admiral), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 locked | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux:pass |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 locked | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 admiral | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 admiral | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 admiral | det |
| 9 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 admiral | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 inspect | mark |
| 19 | inspect | inspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ship | amod |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inspect | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | parataxis |
| 26 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 purchase | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 purchase | nmod:poss |
| 29 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 loud | punct |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 loud | cop |
| 32 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 admiration | case |
| 34 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 loud | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 horses | case |
| 36 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 horses | det |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 horses | amod |
| 38 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 admiration | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | past · passive | horses = horse | for the admiral | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the king | the admiral | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inspect | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the new ship | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | arrangements | for admiral's purchase | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product for purchase=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is | past | admiration of this beautiful horses | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | purchase | admiral | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | admire | this beautiful horses | nom admiration «feeling 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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