Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 162
Eighteen years before, when Babette was christened, this lady was staying at Bex, and she stood godmother for her, and gave her the valuable brooch she now wore in her bosom.
Who acts: lady, arm · What happens: christen, stay, stand, give, wear, bosom · To what, where: Babette, Bex, godmother, valuable brooch, arm, bosom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, arm), 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 | Eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 before | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 christened | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 christened | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 christened | advmod |
| 6 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 christened | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 christened | aux:pass |
| 8 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 staying | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 staying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 staying | aux |
| 13 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 christened | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Bex | case |
| 15 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 staying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 christened | parataxis |
| 20 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 brooch | det |
| 28 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 brooch | amod |
| 29 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wore | nsubj |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 wore | advmod |
| 32 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brooch | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bosom | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wore | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 christened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | christen | past · passive | Babette | before property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | stay | past · progressive | this lady | Bex | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bex=Location | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | arm | godmother | for Valais | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer godmother=Stimulus for she=Attribute | |||
| 4 | give | past | arm not said here | the valuable brooch | arm | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient brooch=Theme | |||
| 5 | wear | past | arm | the valuable brooch not said here | arm's bosom | now | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brooch=Theme | ||
| 6 | bosom | arm | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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