Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 6
At last he had nothing left but a pair of slippers, an old dressing-gown, and four shillings.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: have, leave · To what, where: nothing, last
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nothing | acl |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 pair | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pair | det |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 slippers | case |
| 11 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pair | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gown | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gown | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gown | amod |
| 15 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gown | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dressing | punct |
| 17 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shillings | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shillings | cc |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 shillings | nummod |
| 21 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | merchant | nothing | last | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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