Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 2
For on this day a son and heir has been born, and mother and child are doing well.
Who acts: mother · What happens: bear, do · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 heir | cc |
| 8 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | conj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 doing | cc |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 child | cc |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doing | aux |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 born | conj |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 doing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · perfect · passive | a son and heir | day | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | mother and child | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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