Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 121
That answered capitally with the policeman's daughter, and she got a husband."
Who acts: That, wife · What happens: answer, get · To what, where: husband
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 (That, wife), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | capitally | capitally | ADV | _ | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 policeman | det |
| 6 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 policeman | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 husband | det |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | That | with the policeman's daughter; capitally property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | wife | a husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
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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