Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 147
It was well that I was not allowed to keep my power over Molly's heart, and that she did not remain true to me.
Who acts: song, heart · What happens: not allow, keep, not remain · To what, where: song, power, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, heart), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 allowed | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 allowed | advmod |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 14 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Molly | case |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 remain | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 remain | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 remain | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 remain | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 remain | advmod |
| 23 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | conj |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 remain | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 true | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · passive | song | well property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | song not said here | my power | Molly's heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Theme over heart=Location | |||
| 3 | not remain | past · do-support | heart | true property | vn exist-47.1 «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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