Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 9
When at last he had ruined his health, they brought him into the country, where someone paid for his board and residence.
Who acts: student, windows, someone · What happens: ruin, bring, pay · To what, where: health, last, student, country
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, windows, someone), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 ruined | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruined | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ruined | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruined | aux |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 health | nmod:poss |
| 8 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruined | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruined | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 paid | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 paid | advmod |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 paid | nsubj |
| 19 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 country | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 board | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 board | nmod:poss |
| 22 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paid | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 residence | cc |
| 24 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 board | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | past · perfect | student | student's health | last | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | past | windows = window | student | the country | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into country=Destination | |||
| 3 | pay | past | someone | for student's board and residence | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for board=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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