Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 112
So they sent for Sophy, and she was taken into the house to reside with them, and her presence there was a great advantage.
Who acts: living, presence · What happens: send, take, reside, be · To what, where: Kaela, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living, presence), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Sophy | case |
| 5 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taken | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reside | mark |
| 15 | reside | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 taken | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reside | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 presence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 advantage | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 advantage | amod |
| 26 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | living | for Sophy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | Kaela | the house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | reside | to-infinitive | with living | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | |||||
| 4 | be | past | Kaela's presence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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