Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 194
His numerous merry companions, and the visitors at his table, said it served him right, for he had kept house like a madman.
Who acts: numerous merry companions, ruin · What happens: say, serve, keep · To what, where: wealth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (numerous merry companions, ruin), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companions | nmod:poss |
| 2 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 companions | amod |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 companions | amod |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 visitors | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 visitors | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 visitors | det |
| 8 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 companions | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 table | nmod:poss |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visitors | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 companions | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 served | nsubj |
| 15 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 served | obj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 served | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 kept | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kept | aux |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 served | parataxis |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | xcomp |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 madman | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 madman | det |
| 26 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wealth's numerous merry companions and the visitors at wealth's table | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve | past | ruin | wealth | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||
| 3 | keep | past · perfect · passive | wealth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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