Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 24

Our aunt was sometimes ill, but however unwell she might feel, she never missed the play.

Who acts: aunt · What happens: be, feel, not miss · To what, where: play

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), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 ill	advmod
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unwell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 unwell	cc
8	however	however	ADV	_	9 unwell	advmod
9	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ill	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unwell	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 missed	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 missed	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 missed	advmod
16	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 play	det
18	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 missed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Our aunt		ill, sometimes property	tree rules
2	be		Our aunt not said here		however property	tree rules
3	feel	might	aunt			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not miss	past	aunt	the play		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus

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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