Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 100
He went to travel, and before he started he placed a gold ring on my finger; and as soon as he was out of the house, my mistress sent for me.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, travel, start, place, be, send · To what, where: gold ring, finger, house, mistress
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 travel | mark |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 started | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | compound |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ring | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 soon | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soon | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 house | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 house | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | cop |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 soon | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mistress | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | conj |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 mistress | acl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 sent | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | place | past | man | a gold ring | my finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | man | the house and my mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send | participle | my mistress not said here | for me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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