Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 24
Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the garret lay her only daughter, not quite grown up, and very delicate and weak.
Who acts: garret · What happens: remain, lie, not grow up · To what, where: garret, home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garret), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 remained | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garret | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garret | det |
| 12 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 home | nmod |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | obj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 daughter | advmod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grown | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 grown | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 grown | advmod |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lay | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 grown | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 delicate | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 delicate | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 delicate | advmod |
| 25 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 weak | cc |
| 27 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 delicate | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | garret | poor property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | garret | home in the garret | daughter obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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