Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 5
In this manner he soon lost all his money.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: lose · To what, where: money, manner
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 lost | advmod |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 money | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | merchant | merchant's money | this manner | soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
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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