Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 14
He had lost her ring, and that very loss had won him back to her.
Who acts: Rudy, loss · What happens: lose, win back · To what, where: ring, Rudy, tornado
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, loss), 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 | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 won | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 won | cc |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 loss | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 loss | advmod |
| 10 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 won | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 won | aux |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 won | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 won | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 won | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | Rudy | tornado's ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | win back | past · perfect | that loss | Rudy | tornado | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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