Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 27
Thorwaldsen died in the theatre, and she called that a happy death.
Who acts: Thorwaldsen · What happens: die, call · To what, where: happy death · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Thorwaldsen), 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 | Thorwaldsen | Thorwaldsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 theatre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 theatre | det |
| 5 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 died | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 death | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 death | det |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 death | amod |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Thorwaldsen | in the theatre | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in theatre=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Thorwaldsen | a happy death | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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