Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 78
And she saw the other's life, and it was sorrow and distress, horror, and wretchedness.
Who acts: flower, life · What happens: see, be · To what, where: life, sorrow
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, life), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 other | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrow | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sorrow | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sorrow | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sorrow | cop |
| 12 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 distress | cc |
| 14 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorrow | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 horror | punct |
| 16 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sorrow | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wretchedness | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wretchedness | cc |
| 19 | wretchedness | wretchedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | flower | the other's life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | life | sorrow and distress and horror | tree rules |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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