Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 13
If she deserted the despised street and the little house, fortune would also desert her children.
Who acts: proprietor, fortune · What happens: desert, despise · To what, where: despised street, children
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proprietor, fortune), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 deserted | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deserted | nsubj |
| 3 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 5 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 street | amod |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deserted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 house | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 street | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desert | punct |
| 12 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desert | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 desert | aux |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 desert | advmod |
| 15 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 deserted | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 children | nmod:poss |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 desert | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert | past | proprietor | the despised street and the little house | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme street=Source | ||||
| 2 | despise | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | desert | would | fortune | proprietor's children | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme child=Source |
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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