Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 111
The Chinese really were fond of their emperor, and he now lay so ill that he was not expected to live.
Who acts: Chinese, grief · What happens: be, lie, not expect, live · To what, where: grief
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chinese, grief), 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 Chinese | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 fond | advmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 emperor | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 emperor | nmod:poss |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lay | advmod |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | parataxis |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 ill | advmod |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lay | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 expected | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 expected | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 expected | advmod |
| 20 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lay | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 expected | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Chinese | of words's emperor; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | grief | now | ill property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not expect | past · passive | grief | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | grief not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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