Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 57

The mother wept; the father in fancy saw him "famous;" the town musician was of opinion that he ought not to go to war, but should stay at home and learn music.

Who acts: mother, father, town musician · What happens: weep, see, be, not go, stay, learn · To what, where: son, war, home, music

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, father, town musician), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fancy	case
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 famous	punct
12	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 opinion	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 opinion	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 musician	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 musician	compound
17	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opinion	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opinion	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 opinion	case
20	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 go	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 opinion	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 war	case
28	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stay	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 stay	cc
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stay	aux
32	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wept	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 home	case
34	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stay	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 learn	cc
36	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stay	conj
37	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 learn	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the mother				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the father in fancy	son		famous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is	past	the town musician			of opinion	tree rules
4	not go	ought	father		war		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
5	stay	should	the mother not said here		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
6	learn	infinitive	the mother not said here	music			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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