Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 5

The General's lady (who was so young that she might very well have been her husband's daughter from an early marriage) never came to the window that looked upon the courtyard.

Who acts: lady, window · What happens: be, not come, look · To what, where: daughter, early marriage, window

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, window), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 General	case
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 young	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 young	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 young	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 young	advmod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 daughter	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 daughter	aux
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 daughter	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 daughter	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 daughter	cop
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 husband	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 young	advcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 marriage	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 marriage	det
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 marriage	amod
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 young	punct
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 window	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 window	det
30	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 looked	nsubj
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 window	acl:relcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 courtyard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 courtyard	det
35	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the General's lady			young property	tree rules
2	is a	might · perfect	lady	lady's husband's daughter	a early marriage	well property	tree rules
3	not come	past	the General's lady		the window		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
4	look	past	the window			upon the courtyard	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon courtyard=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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