Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 11
The younger was not Fortune herself, but the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants, who carries about her more trifling gifts.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: not be, carry, trifle · To what, where: gifts
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants), 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 younger | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 Fortune | advcl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fortune | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 Fortune | advmod |
| 5 | Fortune | fortune | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 Fortune | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chambermaid | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 chambermaid | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chambermaid | det |
| 10 | chambermaid | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fortune | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 chambermaid | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 attendants | case |
| 14 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Fortune | case |
| 16 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carries | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carries | nsubj |
| 19 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carries | obl |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 trifling | advmod |
| 23 | trifling | trifle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 carries | advcl |
| 24 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trifling | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fortune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the chambermaid of one of Fortune's attendants obl; fortune property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | present | Fortune's attendants | about cut | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trifle | gerund | Fortune's attendants not said here | gifts | 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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