Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 65
Alfred and Kaela were betrothed, which was a very natural result; and the betrothal was announced in the newspaper of the little town.
What happens: betroth, be, announce · To what, where: Alfred, natural result, betrothal, newspaper
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Kaela | cc |
| 3 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alfred | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 5 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 result | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 result | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 result | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 result | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 natural | advmod |
| 11 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 result | amod |
| 12 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betrothed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 announced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 announced | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 betrothal | det |
| 16 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 announced | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 announced | aux:pass |
| 18 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 betrothed | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 newspaper | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 newspaper | det |
| 21 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 announced | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 town | amod |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 newspaper | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past · passive | Alfred and Kaela | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a natural result | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | past · passive | the betrothal | the newspaper of the little town | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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