Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 194
Poor blind child, what would become of her in those distant regions?
Who acts: Poor blind child · What happens: become · To what, where: distant regions
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor blind child), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 become | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 become | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 regions | case |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 regions | det |
| 12 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 regions | amod |
| 13 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | Poor blind child | in that distant regions result; of page | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in region=Result |
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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