Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 75
Squire OCTOBER brought his dog and his gun with him, and had nuts in his game bag. "
Who acts: Squire · What happens: bring, have · To what, where: dog, nuts, game bag
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 (Squire), 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 | Squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | OCTOBER | OCTOBER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Squire | appos |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gun | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gun | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dog | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gun | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bag | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bag | nmod:poss |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bag | compound |
| 18 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Squire | Squire's dog and Squire's gun with painter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have | past | nuts | painter's game bag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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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