Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 37
They had been told by their grandmothers that who ever did so would be sure to have new clothes before the end of the year.
Who acts: grandmothers · What happens: tell, do, be, have · To what, where: children, grandmothers, new clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 grandmothers | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandmothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandmothers | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 did | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 did | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grandmothers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sure | advmod |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 did | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clothes | amod |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 year | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | children's grandmothers | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | children's grandmothers | children's grandmothers | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | would | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | new clothes | before the end of the year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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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