Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 78
They were pardoned and forgiven, although they really had both done wrong, and deserved to get into trouble; first, because they had let the sucking-pig fall into the water; and, secondly, because they had run away.
Who acts: woman · What happens: pardon, forgive, do, deserve, get, let · To what, where: woman, trouble
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 (woman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 3 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 forgiven | cc |
| 5 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pardoned | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 7 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 done | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 11 | both | both | ADV | _ | 12 done | advmod |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 pardoned | parataxis |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 done | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deserved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deserved | cc |
| 16 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 done | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 deserved | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 first | punct |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 pardoned | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 let | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 let | aux |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pardoned | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fall | det |
| 29 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 fall | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sucking | punct |
| 31 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fall | compound |
| 32 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 let | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 water | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fall | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 secondly | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 secondly | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 and | punct |
| 39 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 3 pardoned | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 run | punct |
| 41 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 44 run | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 run | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 run | aux |
| 44 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 pardoned | conj |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 run | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pardoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | past · passive | woman | first, secondly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forgive | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | woman | both, wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | deserve | participle | woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | woman not said here | trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | ||||
| 6 | let | past · perfect · passive | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fall=Theme | |||||
| 7 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | run away | past · perfect | woman | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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