Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 72
This was an ornament to the jug, and he has a great love for ornament.
Who acts: This, painter · What happens: be, have · To what, where: ornament, great love
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, painter), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 ornament | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ornament | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ornament | det |
| 4 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 jug | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jug | det |
| 7 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ornament | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ornament | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 love | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 love | amod |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ornament | case |
| 16 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ornament | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a ornament | to the jug | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | painter | a great love | for ornament | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/82/72/