Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 12
The lady, who was his mistress, or of whom he was master, carried a bottle of milk, of which the little dog now and then drank; she also offered him pieces of sugar to crunch.
Who acts: lady, mistress, little dog · What happens: be, carry, drink, offer, crunch · To what, where: mistress, bottle, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, mistress, little dog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistress | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mistress | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mistress | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 whom | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 mistress | acl:relcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 master | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 master | cop |
| 14 | master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lady | punct |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bottle | det |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 milk | case |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bottle | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drank | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 drank | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dog | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dog | amod |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drank | nsubj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 drank | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drank | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 drank | advmod |
| 30 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 offered | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 offered | nsubj |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 offered | advmod |
| 34 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 offered | iobj |
| 36 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 offered | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 sugar | case |
| 38 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pieces | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 crunch | mark |
| 40 | crunch | crunch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 offered | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lady | grandfather's mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mistress | master property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the lady | a bottle of milk | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | the little dog | now; then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source | ||||
| 5 | offer | past | lady | pieces of sugar | mistress | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal piece=Theme | |||
| 6 | crunch | to-infinitive | lady not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: 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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