Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 173
My husband laughed when he heard of the foolish affair, and now our Charlotte is a state councillor's wife."
Who acts: husband, Charlotte · What happens: laugh, hear, be · To what, where: wife
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 (husband, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 affair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 affair | det |
| 9 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 affair | amod |
| 10 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wife | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wife | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 wife | advmod |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Charlotte | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wife | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 councillor | det |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 councillor | compound |
| 19 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 councillor | case |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 wife | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | My husband | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | husband | of the foolish affair | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of affair=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | our Charlotte | a state councillor's wife | now | 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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