Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 47
She took eight days to perform the journey; but that was just as it ought to be; for it showed her to be one of the right breeding.
Who acts: forest, journey · What happens: take, perform, show, be · To what, where: journey, forest, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, journey), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perform | mark |
| 6 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perform | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ought | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ought | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 ought | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ought | cop |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 ought | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ought | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ought | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 one | cop |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 showed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 showed | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 showed | nsubj |
| 22 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | det |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 showed | iobj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 one | cop |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ought | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 breeding | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 breeding | det |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 breeding | amod |
| 30 | breeding | breeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | forest | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | forest not said here | the journey | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | past | journey | forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | forest not said here | show one | of the right breeding | tree rules |
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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