Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 7
This person, moreover, maintained that he belonged to a very old family in the land of Egypt, and that he was highly esteemed there.
Who acts: person · What happens: maintain, belong, esteem · To what, where: land, person
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maintained | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 person | punct |
| 4 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 6 maintained | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moreover | punct |
| 6 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 belonged | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 belonged | nsubj |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 maintained | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 family | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 family | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 family | amod |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Egypt | case |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 land | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 esteemed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 esteemed | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 esteemed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 esteemed | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 esteemed | aux:pass |
| 25 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 26 esteemed | advmod |
| 26 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maintained | conj |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 esteemed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | this person | moreover property | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | person | the land of Egypt | to a old family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | esteem | past · passive | person | there | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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