Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 54
The young snail pair now ruled in the forest, and had a numerous progeny.
Who acts: young snail pair · What happens: rule, have · To what, where: forest, numerous progeny
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 (young snail pair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pair | amod |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pair | compound |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ruled | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 progeny | det |
| 14 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 progeny | amod |
| 15 | progeny | progeny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | the young snail pair | the forest | now | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | the young snail pair not said here | a numerous progeny | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progeny=Patient |
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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