Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 147
Burgomaster's Charlotte has engaged herself to the state councillor's son; the betrothal took place yesterday evening."
Who acts: betrothal · What happens: engage, take · To what, where: Charlotte, place
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 (betrothal), 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 | Burgomaster | Burgomaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charlotte | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Burgomaster | case |
| 3 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | aux |
| 5 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 engaged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 councillor | det |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 councillor | compound |
| 10 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 councillor | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 betrothal | det |
| 15 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | conj |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 evening | compound |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · perfect · passive | Burgomaster's Charlotte | to the state councillor's son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer herself=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the betrothal | place | evening | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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