Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 182
"My father would have beaten a famous roll this evening.
Who acts: father · What happens: beat · To what, where: famous roll
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), 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 | _ | 6 beaten | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beaten | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 beaten | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beaten | aux |
| 6 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 roll | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roll | amod |
| 9 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beaten | obj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beaten | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | would · perfect | My father | a famous roll | evening | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roll=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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