Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 45
Now the old lady was sick, and it was said she could not recover.
Who acts: old lady, lady · What happens: be, say, not recover · To what, where: closet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lady, lady), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sick | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sick | cop |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux:pass |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sick | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recover | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 recover | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 recover | advmod |
| 15 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old lady | now | sick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · passive | closet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not recover | could | lady | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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