Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 31
The story related that a Hungarian knight, who had been taken prisoner by a Turkish pasha, was most cruelly treated by him.
Who acts: story, Turkish pasha · What happens: relate, take, treat · To what, where: Hungarian knight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Turkish pasha), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 knight | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 6 | Hungarian | hungarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knight | amod |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 pasha | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pasha | det |
| 16 | Turkish | Turkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pasha | amod |
| 17 | pasha | pasha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 treated | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 cruelly | advmod |
| 21 | cruelly | cruelly | ADV | _ | 22 treated | advmod |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 related | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | the story | a Hungarian knight | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | a Turkish pasha | a Hungarian knight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | treat | past · passive | the story not said here | by story; cruelly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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