Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 6
He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself did how to make wooden shoes strong, but light, and in the fashion.
Who acts: Jeppe, lad · What happens: have, understand, make · To what, where: assistant, wooden shoes
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 (Jeppe, lad), 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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 assistant | det |
| 5 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lad | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lad | det |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 understood | nsubj |
| 10 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lad | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 understood | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 14 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 make | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 understood | advcl |
| 20 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shoes | amod |
| 21 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 light | cc |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fashion | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fashion | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 fashion | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fashion | det |
| 30 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jeppe | a assistant | light obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistant=Patient | |||
| 2 | understand | past | a lad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | past · do-support | Jeppe | wooden shoes | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product |
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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