Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 6
He saw also that there was more wealth here, when compared with his former home at his grandfather's.
Who acts: ear, more wealth · What happens: see, be, compare
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear, more wealth), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | advcl |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 wealth | amod |
| 8 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 was | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 compared | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 compared | advmod |
| 12 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compared | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 grandfather | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 compared | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 grandfather | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be | past | more wealth | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compare | participle | ear not said here | with ear's former home; at ear's grandfather | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with home=Co-Patient |
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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