Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 97
In this letter, she mentioned that her master and mistress had made her a present of a beautiful new dress, and some nice under-clothes.
Who acts: mother · What happens: mention, make · To what, where: letter, master · 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 (mother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 letter | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mentioned | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 letter | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mentioned | nsubj |
| 6 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mistress | cc |
| 11 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | conj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mentioned | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 present | det |
| 16 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 dress | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dress | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dress | amod |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dress | amod |
| 21 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 present | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 nice | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nice | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 nice | det |
| 25 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mentioned | conj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 clothes | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 under | punct |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 nice | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | past | mother | this letter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | mother's master and mistress | tree rules |
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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