Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 90

That was the most memorable evening of her life, and she was glad that she could not see herself, for she would have died with confusion.

Who acts: That, aunt · What happens: be, not see, die · To what, where: memorable evening, aunt

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 (That, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 evening	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evening	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 memorable	advmod
5	memorable	memorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evening	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glad	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glad	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 glad	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glad	cop
14	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 see	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 glad	advcl
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 see	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 died	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 died	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 died	aux
26	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 glad	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 confusion	case
28	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	the memorable evening	of aunt's life	tree rules
2	is	past	aunt		glad property	tree rules
3	not see	could	aunt	aunt		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
4	die	would · perfect	aunt		with confusion	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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