Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 97
She was as fresh as an apple-blossom, but Anthony was not to behold this flower for long.
Who acts: Molly, Anthony · What happens: be, not be
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, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fresh | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 fresh | advmod |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 blossom | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blossom | det |
| 7 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blossom | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 apple | punct |
| 9 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 behold | cc |
| 12 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 behold | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 behold | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 behold | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 behold | mark |
| 16 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 flower | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 behold | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 long | case |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 behold | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Molly | as a apple blossom; fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Anthony | behold 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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