Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 79
The General's lady bowed to him, and the General's daughter was very nearly giving him her hand; but she did not give it to him.
Who acts: lady, daughter · What happens: bow, give, not give · To what, where: Count, hand
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, daughter), 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 | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bowed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 giving | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 giving | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 General | det |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 General | case |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 giving | aux |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 nearly | advmod |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 giving | advmod |
| 17 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bowed | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 giving | iobj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 giving | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 give | advmod |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bowed | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the General's lady | Count | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | give | past · progressive | the General's daughter | lady's hand | Count | nearly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme | ||
| 3 | not give | past · do-support | daughter | hand | Count | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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