Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 23
On the day of the funeral, Harlequin was not required to show himself on the boards, for he was a disconsolate widower.
Who acts: Harlequin · What happens: not require, show, be · To what, where: Harlequin, boards
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harlequin), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 required | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 funeral | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 funeral | det |
| 6 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | Harlequin | Harlequin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 required | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 required | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 required | advmod |
| 11 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 show | mark |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 required | xcomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 boards | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boards | det |
| 17 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 show | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 widower | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 widower | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 widower | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 widower | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 widower | det |
| 23 | disconsolate | disconsolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 widower | amod |
| 24 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boards | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not require | past · passive | Harlequin | day | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | Harlequin | the boards and a disconsolate widower | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Harlequin | for a disconsolate widower | 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: «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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