Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 160
And he sends her money too, and that's very useful to her since she has been a widow."
Who acts: heaven, that, Charlotte · What happens: send, be · To what, where: money, Charlotte, widow
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 (heaven, that, Charlotte), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sends | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 sends | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 useful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 useful | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 useful | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 useful | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 useful | advmod |
| 12 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sends | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 useful | obl |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 widow | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 widow | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 widow | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 widow | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 widow | det |
| 20 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 useful | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | heaven | Charlotte's money | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | Charlotte | useful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present · perfect | Charlotte | a widow | 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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