Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 62
Waldemar Daa wanted gold, and the admiral wished for the proud black horses; therefore he praised them so much.
Who acts: Waldemar, admiral, deal · What happens: want, wish, praise · To what, where: gold, Waldemar
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 (Waldemar, admiral, deal), 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 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Waldemar | flat |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 admiral | det |
| 8 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horses | det |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horses | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horses | amod |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wished | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 praised | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 praised | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 praised | nsubj |
| 18 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 praised | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 praised | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Waldemar | gold | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the admiral | for the proud black horses | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | praise | past | deal | Waldemar | therefore property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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