Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 63
But in the rich castle of their Egyptian host, as they called him, pleasure was not to be found.
Who acts: sunshine · What happens: call, not find · To what, where: Egyptian host, plenty, rich castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 castle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 castle | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 castle | amod |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 host | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 host | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | amod |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 host | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 castle | punct |
| 16 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | dep |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 found | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 found | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | sunshine | sunshine's Egyptian host not said here | plenty | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not find | past · passive | the rich castle of sunshine's Egyptian host | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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