Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 106
She had her boy back again; he had not a silver cross on his breast, as his father had dreamt, but he had sound limbs, a thing the mother had not dreamt.
Who acts: mother, boy, father, thing · What happens: have, dreamt, not dreamt · To what, where: boy, silver cross, breast, sound limbs, mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, boy, father, thing), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 boy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 again | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cross | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cross | det |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cross | compound |
| 13 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 breast | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cross | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dreamt | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 dreamt | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dreamt | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dreamt | aux |
| 22 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 had | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 27 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 limbs | amod |
| 28 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thing | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 thing | det |
| 31 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 limbs | appos |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mother | det |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dreamt | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dreamt | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 dreamt | advmod |
| 36 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 thing | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mother | mother's boy | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | boy | a silver cross | boy's breast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient | |||
| 3 | dreamt | past · perfect | boy's father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | father | sound limbs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not dreamt | past · perfect · passive | a thing not said here | the mother | tree rules |
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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