Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 25
For a whole year she had kept her bed, and it seemed as if she could neither live nor die.
Who acts: garret, it · What happens: keep, seem, live, die · To what, where: bed
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, it), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 year | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 year | amod |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | aux |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 live | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 18 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 die | cc |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 live | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect | garret | garret's bed | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live a condition, not said to happen | could | garret | neither property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | garret not said here | 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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