Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 66
Mama purchased thirty copies of the paper, that she might cut out the paragraph and send it to friends and acquaintances.
Who acts: Mama · What happens: purchase, cut out, send, copy · To what, where: thirty copies, paragraph, friends, paper
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 (Mama), 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 | Mama | Mama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 purchased | nsubj |
| 2 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 copies | nummod |
| 4 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 purchased | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 paper | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 paper | det |
| 7 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copies | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | aux |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 purchased | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 paragraph | det |
| 15 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 send | cc |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 send | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 send | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 acquaintances | cc |
| 22 | acquaintances | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 friends | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | Mama | thirty copies of the paper | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut out | might | Mama | the paragraph | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paragraph=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | send | infinitive | Mama not said here | paragraph | friends and acquaintances | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Destination | |||
| 4 | copy | the paper | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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