Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 97

She deserved to live as long as the theatre stood, but she could not last so long; and she did not die in the theatre, but respectably in her bed.

Who acts: aunt, theatre · What happens: deserve, live, stand, not last, not die · To what, where: bed

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 deserved	nsubj
2	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 live	mark
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 deserved	xcomp
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 live	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 theatre	det
9	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 last	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 last	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 last	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 last	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 last	advmod
16	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 last	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 die	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 die	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 die	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 die	advmod
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 deserved	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 theatre	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 theatre	det
27	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 die	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 bed	cc
30	respectably	respectably	ADV	_	33 bed	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bed	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bed	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deserved	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deserved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	deserve	past	aunt	aunt's bed		tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	aunt not said here		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	the theatre			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not last	could	aunt		long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	not die	past · do-support	aunt		in the theatre	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in theatre=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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