Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 152
She could not help it, and yet I have been so bitter, and in such enmity against her."
Who acts: sound, I · What happens: not help, be · To what, where: good
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 (sound, I), 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 | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bitter | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bitter | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 bitter | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bitter | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bitter | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 bitter | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 bitter | advmod |
| 13 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 help | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enmity | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 enmity | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 enmity | case |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enmity | amod |
| 18 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bitter | conj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enmity | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | sound | good | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | I | yet | bitter property | tree rules |
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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