Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 14
The money-pig was the only one who received a written invitation.
Who acts: money pig, only one · What happens: be, receive, write · To what, where: only one, written invitation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money pig, only one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pig | det |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pig | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 money | punct |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 received | nsubj |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 invitation | det |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 invitation | amod |
| 13 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 received | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the money pig | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the only one | a written invitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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