Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 2
He had three silver cups, two handsome pistols, and a silver coffee-pot.
Who acts: number · What happens: have · To what, where: three silver cups
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 cups | nummod |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cups | compound |
| 5 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pistols | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pistols | nummod |
| 8 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pistols | amod |
| 9 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cups | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pot | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pot | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pot | amod |
| 14 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pot | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 coffee | punct |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | number | three silver cups and two handsome pistols | a silver coffee pot obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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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