Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 17
Her chief inheritance had been an old Bible, which she read and valued.
Who acts: chief inheritance, girl · What happens: be, read, value, inherit · To what, where: old Bible
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief inheritance, girl), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 inheritance | amod |
| 3 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Bible | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Bible | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Bible | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Bible | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bible | amod |
| 8 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 read | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 read | nsubj |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Bible | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 valued | cc |
| 14 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 read | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | girl's chief inheritance | a old Bible | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | past | girl | a old Bible | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | value | past | girl not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | inherit | girl | nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=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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