Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 170
The value of the gold he had found was paid to him; it was a large sum--six hundred dollars.
Who acts: Ib, value · What happens: find, pay, be, value · To what, where: gold, value, Ib, large sum
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 (Ib, value), 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 | 2 value | det |
| 2 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 value | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gold | acl:relcl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 paid | aux:pass |
| 10 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 paid | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sum | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sum | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sum | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sum | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sum | amod |
| 18 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paid | parataxis |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 dollars | punct |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hundred | compound |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 dollars | nummod |
| 22 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sum | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect | Ib | the gold not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | past · passive | the value of the gold | Ib | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | value | a large sum and hundred dollars | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | value | the gold | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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