Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 106
He's lost his life, and I'm very near losing mine."
Who acts: I · What happens: lose · To what, where: cock, mine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 losing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 losing | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 losing | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 losing | aux |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 losing | advmod |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 losing | mark |
| 12 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lost | parataxis |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 losing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 losing | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 losing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | cock | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · progressive | I | mine | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Eventuality |
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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