Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 4
The whole town knew who the stranger was; and one of the richest men in the place gave a party in his honor, and all who were of any consequence, or who possessed some property, were invited.
Who acts: whole town, stranger, one, all, Alfred · What happens: know, be, give, possess, invite, honor · To what, where: party, honor, property · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whole town, stranger, one, all), 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 town | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 who | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 who | cop |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 14 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 party | det |
| 21 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 honor | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 honor | nmod:poss |
| 24 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 consequence | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 consequence | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 consequence | nsubj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 consequence | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 consequence | cop |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 consequence | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 consequence | det |
| 32 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 possessed | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 possessed | cc |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 possessed | nsubj |
| 36 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 property | det |
| 38 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 possessed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 invited | punct |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 invited | aux:pass |
| 41 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 possessed | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the whole town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the stranger | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past | one of the richest men in the place | a party | Alfred's honor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | all | of any consequence | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | possess | past | some property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme | |||||
| 6 | invite | past · passive | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» | ||||||
| 7 | honor | Alfred | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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