Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 84
And the father dreamt that the war was over, that the soldiers had returned home, and that Peter wore a silver cross on his breast.
Who acts: father, war, soldiers, Peter · What happens: dreamt, be, return, wear · To what, where: silver cross, breast
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, war, soldiers, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dreamt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreamt | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 over | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 over | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 over | cop |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 dreamt | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 returned | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldiers | det |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 dreamt | conj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 returned | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wore | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wore | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wore | mark |
| 20 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 21 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamt | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cross | det |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cross | compound |
| 24 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 breast | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 breast | nmod:poss |
| 27 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dreamt | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the war | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | past · perfect | the soldiers | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | Peter | a silver cross | soldier's breast | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cross=Source |
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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