Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 10
Was she to be left sitting on the bough all night long?
Who acts: doll · What happens: leave, sit · To what, where: doll, bough
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bough | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bough | det |
| 9 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sitting | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | doll | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | doll not said here | the bough | night | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location |
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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