Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 33
The faithful wife of the knight at home gave up all her jewels, mortgaged her castle and land, and his friends raised large sums to make up the ransom demanded for his release, which was most enormously high.
Who acts: faithful wife, friends, ransom, release · What happens: give up, mortgage, raise, make up, demand, be · To what, where: castle, large sums
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 (faithful wife, friends, ransom, release), 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 | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | nmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 gave | compound:prt |
| 11 | all | all | ADP | _ | 13 jewels | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mortgaged | punct |
| 15 | mortgaged | mortgage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mortgaged | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 land | cc |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 castle | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 raised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 raised | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friends | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 raised | nsubj |
| 24 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gave | conj |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sums | amod |
| 26 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 raised | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 raised | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 make | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ransom | det |
| 31 | ransom | ransom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 demanded | nsubj |
| 32 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | ccomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 release | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 release | nmod:poss |
| 35 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 demanded | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 high | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 high | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 high | cop |
| 39 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 40 enormously | advmod |
| 40 | enormously | enormously | ADV | _ | 41 high | advmod |
| 41 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 release | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the faithful wife of the knight at home | all wife's jewels | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mortgage | past | the faithful wife of the knight at home not said here | wife's castle and land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | knight's friends | large sums | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make up | to-infinitive | knight's friends not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | the ransom | for knight's release | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | knight's release | enormously, high property | tree rules |
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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