Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 14
She had heard and yet not heard, as we are often obliged to do in this world, in order to live at peace; but she could not keep it from her neighbour on the other side any longer. "
Who acts: hen · What happens: hear, not hear, oblige, do, live, not keep · To what, where: we, world, peace, neighbour
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obliged | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 obliged | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 obliged | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 obliged | advmod |
| 13 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 obliged | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 live | mark |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 in | fixed |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 keep | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 keep | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 keep | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 keep | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 keep | advmod |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 keep | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 neighbour | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 35 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keep | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 side | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 side | amod |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keep | obl |
| 40 | any | any | ADV | _ | 41 longer | advmod |
| 41 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 keep | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | hen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not hear | participle | hen not said here | yet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | oblige | present · passive | we | often property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | this world | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | peace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at peace=Location | |||||
| 6 | not keep | could | hen | peace | hen's neighbour | on the other side; long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on side=Location |
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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