Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 87
Then Molly was the only one who dared to resist him. "
Who acts: Molly, only one · What happens: be, dare, resist · To what, where: only one, Anthony
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 (Molly, only one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 one | advmod |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dared | nsubj |
| 8 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 resist | mark |
| 10 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dared | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 resist | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Molly | the only one | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dare | past | the only one | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | resist | to-infinitive | the only one not said here | Anthony | 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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