Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 2
He had a golden shoe on each foot, and why was this?
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: have, be · To what, where: golden shoe, foot, this
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shoe | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shoe | amod |
| 5 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 this | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 this | cc |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 this | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 this | cop |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 had | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Emperor | a golden shoe | each foot | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | 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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