Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 10
The Sea King had been a widower for many years, and his aged mother kept house for him.
Who acts: Sea King, aged mother · What happens: be, keep, house · To what, where: widower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea King, aged 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 widower | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 widower | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 widower | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 widower | det |
| 7 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 widower | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 house | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nsubj |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 widower | appos |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 widower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | the Sea King | a widower | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | house | widower's aged mother | for widower | tree rules |
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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