Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 41
The miller's family--one soul, many thoughts, and yet only one--built a new, a splendid mill, which answered its purpose.
Who acts: family, new splendid mill · What happens: build, answer, purpose · To what, where: new splendid mill, purpose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, new splendid mill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14849): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miller | det |
| 2 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 miller | case |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 soul | nummod |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thoughts | punct |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 soul | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 soul | conj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mill | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mill | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mill | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mill | det |
| 22 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mill | amod |
| 23 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 built | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 answered | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 answered | nsubj |
| 26 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mill | acl:relcl |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 28 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answered | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the miller's family | a new splendid mill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mill=Product | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a new splendid mill | family's purpose | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | purpose | family | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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