Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 169
"He played at our house before he played in the presence of kings," said the burgomaster's wife. "
Who acts: father, wife · What happens: play, say · To what, where: house, presence · 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 (father, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 played | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | nsubj |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 presence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 presence | det |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 played | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kings | case |
| 14 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 presence | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burgomaster | det |
| 19 | burgomaster | burgomaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 burgomaster | case |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | past | father | our house | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | past | father | the presence of kings | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the burgomaster's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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