Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 39

It was Byron's poem, "The Prisoner of Chillon," translated into French, so that Babette could read it.

Who acts: Englishman, Babette · What happens: be, translate, read · To what, where: poem, French, Englishman

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 (Englishman, Babette), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poem	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poem	cop
3	Byron	Byron	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poem	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Byron	case
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Prisoner	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Prisoner	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prisoner	det
9	Prisoner	Prisoner	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 poem	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Chillon	case
11	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Prisoner	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 translated	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 translated	punct
14	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 poem	appos
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 French	case
16	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 translated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 read	punct
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 read	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 read	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 read	aux
22	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 translated	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 read	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Englishman	Byron's poem		tree rules
2	translate	participle			into French result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into french=Result
3	read	could	Babette	Englishman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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