Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 171
The eldest had remained an old maid and had no nest nor young ones.
What happens: remain, have · To what, where: eldest, nest
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: 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 | 4 remained | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | aux |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maid | amod |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remained | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 nest | det |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 ones | cc |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nest | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past · perfect · passive | eldest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | no nest nor young ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |
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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