Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 17

They belonged to her daughter; and surely no one who had such a daughter could be silly.

Who acts: guests, one · What happens: belong, have, be · To what, where: daughter

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 (guests, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 belonged	nsubj
2	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 daughter	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belonged	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 silly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 silly	cc
8	surely	surely	ADV	_	18 silly	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 silly	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 daughter	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 daughter	det
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 silly	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 silly	cop
18	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 belonged	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	belong	past	guests = guest		to lady's daughter	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	no one	such daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	could	no one		silly, surely 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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