Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 48
Each wished to keep the best things they had.
Who acts: things · What happens: wish, keep, have · To what, where: Each, best things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wished | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | participle · passive | Each | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the best things | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | things = thing | the best things not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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