Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 3
Little Tuk was left at home to take care of his little sister, Gustava, who was much younger than himself, and he had to learn his lessons at the same time, and the two things could not very well be performed together.
Who acts: little sister, Tuk · What happens: leave, take, be, have, learn, not perform · To what, where: Little Tuk, home, care, lessons, two things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister, Tuk), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tuk | amod |
| 2 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 left | advcl |
| 9 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Gustava | punct |
| 15 | Gustava | Gustava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 younger | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 younger | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 younger | cop |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 younger | advmod |
| 20 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sister | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 younger | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 learn | mark |
| 28 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 learn | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 learn | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 performed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 performed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 things | det |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 things | nummod |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 performed | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 performed | advmod |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 well | advmod |
| 43 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 performed | advmod |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 performed | aux:pass |
| 45 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 46 | together | together | ADV | _ | 45 performed | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Little Tuk | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | care | of Tuk's little sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sister=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Tuk's little sister | than Tuk; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Tuk | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | Tuk not said here | Tuk's lessons | time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic | |||
| 6 | not perform | could · passive | the two things | together, well property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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