Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 28
The doll, whose neck had been darned, was so excited that the place in her neck burst, and the money-pig declared he must do something for one of the players, as they had all pleased him so much.
Who acts: neck, doll, money pig, play, wires · What happens: be, declare, do, have, burst · To what, where: something, play
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 (neck, doll, money pig, play), 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 | 2 doll | det |
| 2 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excited | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darned | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 darned | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 darned | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 darned | cop |
| 8 | darned | darned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 doll | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doll | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 excited | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 excited | advmod |
| 12 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 place | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excited | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 burst | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 burst | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | compound |
| 19 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 declared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 declared | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pig | det |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pig | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 money | punct |
| 25 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 declared | nsubj |
| 26 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 excited | parataxis |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 declared | xcomp |
| 30 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 do | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 do | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 players | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 players | det |
| 35 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 had | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 declared | conj |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 pleased | advmod |
| 41 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 him | amod |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 had | obl |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 much | advmod |
| 44 | much | much | ADV | _ | 39 had | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | neck | darned property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the doll | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the money pig | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | must | play | something | for one of the players | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | have | past | wires = wire | play | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | burst | neck | nom burst «act transitive»: poss=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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