Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 142
Eric had credit, so he borrowed the money in the chief town.
Who acts: Eric · What happens: have, borrow · To what, where: credit, money, chief town
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 (Eric), 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 | Eric | Eric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 borrowed | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 borrowed | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 borrowed | nsubj |
| 7 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 money | det |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borrowed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borrowed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Eric | credit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past | Eric | the money | the chief town | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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