Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 139
At home that evening he spoke of travel in the wide world, and of the golden treasure that lay hidden for him in his violin.
Who acts: son, golden treasure · What happens: speak, lie, hide · To what, where: home, golden treasure, violin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, golden treasure), 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 home | case |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 home | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 travel | case |
| 8 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 treasure | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 treasure | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 treasure | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 treasure | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 treasure | amod |
| 18 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 21 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 treasure | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hidden | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 violin | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 violin | nmod:poss |
| 26 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hidden | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | son | home that evening | of travel in the wide world; of the golden treasure | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the golden treasure | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | participle | the golden treasure not said here | son's violin | for son | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in violin=Location |
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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