Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 180
During these two days old Anthony had not left his bed, he had not the strength to do so.
Who acts: Anthony · What happens: not leave, have, do · To what, where: bed, strength
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 (Anthony), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 days | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Anthony | amod |
| 6 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | appos |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 left | advmod |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 strength | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strength | det |
| 17 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 strength | acl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · perfect | Anthony's bed | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Anthony | the strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Anthony not said here | the strength not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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