Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 90
Once our beloved Aphtanides paid us a visit.
Who acts: beloved Aphtanides · What happens: pay · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beloved Aphtanides), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 paid | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Aphtanides | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Aphtanides | amod |
| 4 | Aphtanides | Aphtanides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | nsubj |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 paid | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | our beloved Aphtanides | us | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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