Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 13
She seemed really only to live during the nine months the theatre was open.
Who acts: aunt, theatre · What happens: seem, live, be · To what, where: nine months
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, theatre), 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 | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 months | det |
| 9 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 theatre | det |
| 12 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 open | cop |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 months | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | aunt | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | aunt not said here | month | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the theatre | the nine months not said here | open 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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