Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 163
He searched further, and found more valuable treasures, which Ib showed to the clergyman, who explained their value to him.
Who acts: sun, valuable treasures, clergyman, treasures · What happens: search, find, show, explain, value · To what, where: valuable treasures, clergyman, value, sun
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, valuable treasures, clergyman, treasures), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 2 searched | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 valuable | advmod |
| 8 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 treasures | amod |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 clergyman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 clergyman | det |
| 16 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 explained | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 explained | nsubj |
| 19 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clergyman | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 value | nmod:poss |
| 21 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 explained | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 explained | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | sun | further property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | valuable treasures | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show | past | valuable treasures | the clergyman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to clergyman=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | past | the clergyman | treasures's value | sun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent value=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | value | treasures = treasure | nom value «cognition 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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