Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 95
I was in service at the counsellor's, the father of the mayor, and it happened that the youngest of his sons, the student, came home.
Who acts: I, it, youngest · What happens: be, happen, come · To what, where: service
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 (I, it, youngest), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 service | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 service | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 service | case |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 counsellor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 counsellor | det |
| 7 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 service | nmod |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 counsellor | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 service | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mayor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mayor | det |
| 14 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happened | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 service | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 came | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 came | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sons | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 youngest | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 student | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 student | det |
| 27 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sons | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 student | punct |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | advcl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | service and the father of the mayor | at the counsellor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the youngest of boy's sons | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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