Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 11
It contained elegant couches, for the reception of the bridal pair during the night.
Who acts: tent · What happens: contain, receive · To what, where: elegant couches, bridal pair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tent), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 contained | nsubj |
| 2 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 couches | amod |
| 4 | couches | couch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 contained | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reception | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 reception | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reception | det |
| 8 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contained | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pair | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pair | det |
| 11 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pair | amod |
| 12 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reception | nmod |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 contained | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | tent | elegant couches | night | for the reception of the bridal pair | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot couch=Theme | ||
| 2 | receive | the bridal pair | nom reception «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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