Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 164
Then he went to the magistrate, who informed the president of the museum of the discovery, and advised Ib to take the treasures himself to the president.
Who acts: sun, magistrate, Ib · What happens: go, inform, advise, take · To what, where: magistrate, president, Ib, treasures
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, magistrate, Ib), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 magistrate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magistrate | det |
| 6 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 informed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 informed | nsubj |
| 9 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 magistrate | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 president | det |
| 11 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 informed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 museum | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 museum | det |
| 14 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 president | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 discovery | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 discovery | det |
| 17 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 museum | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advised | cc |
| 20 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 advised | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 advised | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 treasures | det |
| 25 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 take | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 president | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 president | det |
| 29 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sun | the magistrate | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to magistrate=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | the magistrate | the president of the museum of the discovery | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent president=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | sun not said here | Ib | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent ib=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | the treasures | the president | sun obl:unmarked | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to president=Destination |
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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