Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 140
Her cousins were two good-tempered boys, whose names were James and Adolphus.
Who acts: cousins, names, James · What happens: temper, be, name · To what, where: two tempered boys, James
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cousins, names, James), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousins | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boys | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 boys | cop |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boys | nummod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tempered | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 James | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 names | nmod:poss |
| 11 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 James | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 James | cop |
| 13 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boys | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Adolphus | cc |
| 15 | Adolphus | Adolphus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 James | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | temper | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Ida's cousins | two tempered boys | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | James and Adolphus's names | James and Adolphus | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | James and Adolphus | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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