Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 79
The drummer and his wife also thought of it, for Peter was at the war.
Who acts: drummer, Peter · What happens: think, be · 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 (drummer, Peter), 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 drummer | det |
| 2 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drummer | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 war | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 war | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 war | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 war | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the drummer and drummer's wife | of wounded | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Peter | for the war | 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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