Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 80
Then the children received permission to plunder the tree.
Who acts: children · What happens: receive, plunder · To what, where: permission, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 received | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 plunder | mark |
| 7 | plunder | plunder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permission | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plunder | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the children | permission | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | |||
| 2 | plunder | to-infinitive | the children not said here | the tree | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source |
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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