Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 83
They had been talking about their son, as, indeed, they did almost every night, for he was out yonder in God's hand.
Who acts: Rub, son · What happens: talk, do, be
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 (Rub, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 talking | aux |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 indeed | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 as | punct |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 did | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | parataxis |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 night | advmod |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hand | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 hand | cop |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 was | compound:prt |
| 23 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 27 hand | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 God | case |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · perfect · progressive | Rub | about Rub's son | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about son=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Rub | night | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | past | son | for God's hand; yonder property | 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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