Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 29

The widow had never been disobedient to the law, and was strong in her just rights.

Who acts: widow · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: rights

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disobedient	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 disobedient	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 disobedient	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 disobedient	cop
6	disobedient	disobedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 law	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 law	det
9	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disobedient	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strong	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strong	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 strong	cop
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 disobedient	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 rights	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 rights	nmod:poss
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 rights	advmod
17	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strong	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 disobedient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past · perfect	the widow					to the law; disobedient property	tree rules
2	is	past	the widow not said here			widow's rights		strong property	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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