Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 101
Soon she was weary of her life with him, but that did not make it better.
Who acts: daughter, that · What happens: be, not make · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, that), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 weary | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 weary | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weary | cop |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weary | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weary | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | of daughter's life with man; soon, weary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | past · do-support | that | life | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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