Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 32
The General's lady did not show herself, for she had her bad headache.
Who acts: lady · What happens: not show, have · To what, where: lady, bad headache
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | 7 show | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 show | advmod |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 show | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 had | case |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 show | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 headache | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 headache | amod |
| 15 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | past · do-support | the General's lady | lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | lady | lady's bad headache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient |
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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