Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 122
They certainly do not mourn at their neighbours' misfortunes.
Who acts: roses · What happens: not mourn · To what, where: misfortunes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mourn | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 mourn | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mourn | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mourn | advmod |
| 5 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 misfortunes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 neighbours | case |
| 10 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mourn | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mourn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mourn | present · do-support | roses = rose | roses's neighbours's misfortunes | certainly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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