Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 75
Once our aunt had been in fear and trembling in her temple of happiness, the theatre.
Who acts: aunt · What happens: be, tremble · To what, where: fear, temple
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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 7 fear | mark |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 3 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fear | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trembling | cc |
| 9 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fear | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 temple | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 temple | nmod:poss |
| 12 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembling | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 happiness | case |
| 14 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 temple | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 theatre | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 theatre | det |
| 17 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happiness | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | our aunt | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | our aunt not said here | aunt's temple of happiness and the theatre | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location |
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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