Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 184
It was not fever, nor sickness, but old age, that had laid him low.
Who acts: jug · What happens: not be, lay · To what, where: fever, old age
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 (jug), 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 | 4 fever | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fever | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fever | advmod |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sickness | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 sickness | cc |
| 7 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 age | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 age | cc |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 age | amod |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laid | aux |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 age | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 laid | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | jug | fever nor sickness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · perfect · passive | old age | low property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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