Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 56
For years she had not been able to weep, but had only bitten her lips till the blood started.
Who acts: mother, blood · What happens: not be, weep, bite, start · To what, where: lips
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 (mother, blood), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 years | case |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 able | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 able | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 able | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 able | cop |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 weep | mark |
| 9 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bitten | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 bitten | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bitten | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 bitten | advmod |
| 14 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 able | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lips | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bitten | obj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 started | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blood | det |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | nsubj |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bitten | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | mother | year | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bite | past · perfect | mother's lips | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | |||||
| 4 | start | past | the blood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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