Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 4
She did not seem created for the sorrows of this world.
Who acts: Moon, world · What happens: not seem, create, sorrow
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 (Moon, world), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seem | advmod |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | created | create | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sorrows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sorrows | det |
| 8 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 created | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorrows | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | past · do-support | Moon | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | create | participle | Moon not said here | for the sorrows of this world | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sorrow=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | sorrow | this world | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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: «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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