Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 101
"Oh, for my horse's skin, I sold it yesterday."
Who acts: Great · What happens: sell · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sold | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 sold | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 skin | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sold | nsubj |
| 11 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sold | obj |
| 13 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sold | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sold | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | past | Great | skin | yesterday | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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