Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 74
But she, trembling in every limb, did not think of the adornment.
Who acts: mother · What happens: tremble, not think · To what, where: limb
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 (mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 trembling | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trembling | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trembling | punct |
| 4 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 limb | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 limb | det |
| 7 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 trembling | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 adornment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 adornment | det |
| 14 | adornment | adornment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 think | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trembling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | gerund | mother | every limb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | of the adornment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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