Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 45
"'Mine has been a very different fate,' said the iron pot, which stood by the matches; 'from my first entrance into the world I have been used to cooking and scouring.
Who acts: Mine, iron pot · What happens: be, say, stand, use · To what, where: different fate, iron pot, I, first entrance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mine, iron pot), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fate | punct |
| 3 | Mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fate | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fate | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fate | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fate | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 different | advmod |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fate | amod |
| 9 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fate | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fate | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pot | compound |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pot | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 matches | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 matches | det |
| 21 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stood | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 used | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 used | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 entrance | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 entrance | amod |
| 27 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 used | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 entrance | nmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 used | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 used | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 used | aux:pass |
| 34 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 cooking | case |
| 36 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 used | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 scouring | cc |
| 38 | scouring | scouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cooking | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | Mine | a different fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the iron pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pot=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | past | the iron pot | by the matches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by match=Location | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | present · perfect · passive | I | my first entrance into the world | to cooking and scouring | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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