Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 120
In tragedies they die, in comedies they marry one another."
Who acts: tragedy · What happens: die, marry · To what, where: one, comedies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tragedy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tragedies | case |
| 2 | tragedies | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 die | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 comedies | case |
| 7 | comedies | comedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marry | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | tragedy | in tragedies | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tragedy=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | marry | present | tragedy | one | comedies | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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