Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 14
The messenger of Fortune had only transacted a few unimportant matters; for instance, she had preserved a new bonnet from a shower of rain, and obtained for an honest man a bow from a titled nobody, and so on; but she had something extraordinary to relate, after all.
Who acts: few unimportant, Fortune, something · What happens: transact, matter, preserve, obtain, title, have · To what, where: messenger, new bonnet, bow, nobody, something
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 (few unimportant, Fortune, something), 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 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 transacted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 messenger | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 transacted | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 transacted | advmod |
| 7 | transacted | transact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 unimportant | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 unimportant | amod |
| 10 | unimportant | unimportant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 matters | nsubj |
| 11 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 transacted | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 preserved | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 instance | case |
| 14 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 preserved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 instance | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 preserved | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 preserved | aux |
| 18 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 transacted | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bonnet | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bonnet | amod |
| 21 | bonnet | bonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 preserved | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 shower | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shower | det |
| 24 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 preserved | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rain | case |
| 26 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shower | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 obtained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 obtained | cc |
| 29 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 transacted | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 man | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 obtained | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bow | det |
| 35 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 obtained | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 nobody | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 nobody | det |
| 38 | titled | title | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 nobody | amod |
| 39 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 obtained | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 on | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 on | cc |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 on | advmod |
| 43 | on | on | ADV | _ | 39 nobody | conj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 had | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 had | cc |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 had | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 transacted | parataxis |
| 48 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 47 had | obj |
| 49 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 something | amod |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 relate | mark |
| 51 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 extraordinary | xcomp |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 all | punct |
| 53 | after | after | ADP | _ | 54 all | case |
| 54 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 had | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 transacted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transact | past · perfect · passive | the messenger of Fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | matter | present | a few unimportant | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | preserve | past · perfect | Fortune | a new bonnet | for instance; from a shower of rain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bonnet=Beneficiary from shower=Theme | |||
| 4 | obtain | participle | a bow | nobody | for a honest man | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent bow=Theme for man=Asset | |||
| 5 | title | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | Fortune | something | after all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 7 | relate | to-infinitive | something not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
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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