Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 150

She had heard it from the baker's wife, whose husband had it from the burgomaster's own mouth.

Who acts: mother, husband · What happens: hear, have · To what, where: place, own mouth

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, husband), 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	3 heard	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 wife	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baker	det
7	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 baker	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 burgomaster	det
17	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mouth	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 burgomaster	case
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mouth	amod
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	mother	place				from the baker's wife	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from wife=Source
2	have	past	husband	place		the burgomaster's own mouth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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