Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 55
This was the legend which the master read out of the old story-book.
Who acts: This, master · What happens: be, read out · To what, where: legend, old story book
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 (This, master), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 legend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 legend | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legend | det |
| 4 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 read | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | nsubj |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 legend | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 book | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 book | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 story | punct |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 read | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 legend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read out | past | the master | the legend | the old story book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient book=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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