Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 43
The other branches of the family were taken to different places, and our office now is to kindle a light for common people.
Who acts: office · What happens: take, be · To what, where: other branches, different places
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 (office), 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 | 3 branches | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 branches | amod |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 branches | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 places | case |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kindle | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kindle | cc |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 office | nmod:poss |
| 15 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kindle | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 office | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kindle | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kindle | mark |
| 19 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taken | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 light | det |
| 21 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kindle | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kindle | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the other branches of the family | different places | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to place=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | our office | for common people; kindle property | tree rules |
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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