Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 28
One was a large dog, called Ajola, which had belonged to his father; and the other was a tom-cat.
Who acts: Ajola, other · What happens: be, call, belong · To what, where: One large dog, tom cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ajola, other), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dog | nummod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dog | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dog | acl |
| 8 | Ajola | Ajola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 belonged | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 belonged | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 belonged | aux |
| 12 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Ajola | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 belonged | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 cat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cat | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cat | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cat | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cat | det |
| 22 | tom | tom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cat | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tom | punct |
| 24 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dog | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a One large dog and a tom cat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | a One large dog and a tom cat not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | belong | past · perfect | Ajola | to Ajola's father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the other | a tom cat | 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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