Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 77
The third was of quite a different sort; she had learnt in the brew-house of the moor witch how to lard elfin puddings with glow-worms.
Who acts: third, daughter · What happens: be, learn, witch, lard · To what, where: different sort, brew house, elfin puddings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sort | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 5 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sort | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sort | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sort | amod |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 learnt | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 learnt | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 learnt | aux |
| 12 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 sort | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | brew | brew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 brew | punct |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learnt | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 moor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 moor | det |
| 20 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 21 | witch | witch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learnt | conj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 lard | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lard | mark |
| 24 | lard | lard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 witch | ccomp |
| 25 | elfin | elfin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 puddings | compound |
| 26 | puddings | pudding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lard | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 worms | case |
| 28 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 worms | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 glow | punct |
| 30 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lard | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the third | of quite different sort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | past · perfect | daughter | quite different sort not said here | the brew house of the moor | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic | |||
| 3 | witch | infinitive | daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lard | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | elfin puddings | with glow worms | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pudding=Destination with worm=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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