Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 21
It was a suicide--our painted, despised hero.
Who acts: hearse · What happens: be, paint, despise · To what, where: suicide
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearse), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 suicide | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suicide | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 suicide | det |
| 4 | suicide | suicide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 hero | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hero | nmod:poss |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hero | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hero | punct |
| 9 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hero | amod |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suicide | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suicide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hearse | a suicide and our painted despised hero | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | despise | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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