Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 1
There was once an Emperor who had a horse shod with gold.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, have, shoe · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | shod | shoe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 horse | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shod | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a Emperor | a horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shoe | participle | a horse not said here | with gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=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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