Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 4
His son inherited his wealth, and he lived a merry life with it; he went to a masquerade every night, made kites out of five pound notes, and threw pieces of gold into the sea instead of stones, making ducks and drakes of them.
Who acts: son, merchant · What happens: inherit, live, go, make, throw · To what, where: wealth, merry life, masquerade, kites, five pound notes, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, merchant), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inherited | nsubj |
| 3 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inherited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lived | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lived | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 masquerade | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 masquerade | det |
| 20 | masquerade | masquerade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | conj |
| 25 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 notes | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 notes | case |
| 28 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 notes | nummod |
| 29 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 notes | compound |
| 30 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 threw | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 threw | cc |
| 33 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | parataxis |
| 34 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 threw | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pieces | nmod |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 threw | obl |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 42 stones | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 threw | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 making | punct |
| 44 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 threw | advcl |
| 45 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 making | obj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 drakes | cc |
| 47 | drakes | drake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 ducks | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 drakes | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | past | merchant's son | merchant's wealth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | merchant | a merry life | with life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | merchant | a masquerade | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to masquerade=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | merchant's son not said here | kites | five pound notes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kite=Product | |||
| 5 | throw | past | pieces of gold | into the sea result; instead stones | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer piece=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | ducks and drakes of drakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset duck=Product |
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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