Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 33
A new poem, entitled "My Aunt's Spectacles," was being recited.
Who acts: new poem · What happens: entitle, recite · To what, where: Spectacles, new poem
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new poem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3159): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poem | amod |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entitled | punct |
| 5 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poem | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spectacles | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Aunt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Aunt | case |
| 10 | Spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entitled | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 poem | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spectacles | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 recited | aux |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 recited | aux:pass |
| 15 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entitle | participle | a new poem not said here | My Aunt's Spectacles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recite | past · progressive · passive | a new poem | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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