Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 38
The Englishman had made her a present of a little book, in remembrance of their visit to Chillon.
Who acts: books · What happens: make, remember, visit · To what, where: Englishman, remembrance, visit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books), 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 Englishman | det |
| 2 | Englishman | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 book | amod |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 present | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remembrance | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 remembrance | case |
| 14 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 visit | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 visit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remembrance | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Chillon | case |
| 19 | Chillon | Chillon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the Englishman | remembrance of books's visit to Chillon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | books's visit to Chillon | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | visit | books = book | to Chillon | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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