Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 90
Next day the youthful pair started for Copenhagen, where they were to live; mamma-in-law accompanied them, to attend to the "coarse work," as she always called the domestic arrangements.
Who acts: youthful pair, mythologies, mamma, pair · What happens: start, live, accompany, attend, call · To what, where: mythologies, domestic arrangements · 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 (youthful pair, mythologies, mamma, pair), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 4 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pair | amod |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Copenhagen | case |
| 8 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 live | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Copenhagen | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 accompanied | punct |
| 16 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanied | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mamma | conj |
| 21 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 accompanied | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attend | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 attend | mark |
| 25 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 accompanied | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 work | det |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 work | punct |
| 29 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 work | amod |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attend | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attend | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 accompanied | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 called | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 called | nsubj |
| 35 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 36 called | advmod |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accompanied | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 arrangements | det |
| 38 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 arrangements | amod |
| 39 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 called | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the youthful pair | day | for Copenhagen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | live | past | mythologies = mythology | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accompany | past | mamma and law | mythologies = mythology | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attend | to-infinitive | mamma and law not said here | to the coarse work | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to work=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | past | pair | the domestic arrangements | always property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arrangement=Recipient |
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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