Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 110
She had no food before her eyes, and murmured against everything, even against the good God himself, so wretched was her soul.
Who acts: couple · What happens: have, murmur, be · To what, where: food, everything, wretched soul
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 (couple), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 food | det |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 murmured | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 murmured | cc |
| 10 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 everything | case |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 murmured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 God | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 God | advmod |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 God | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 God | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 God | amod |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 murmured | obl |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 God | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wretched | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 wretched | advmod |
| 22 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 soul | amod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 soul | cop |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 soul | nmod:poss |
| 25 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | couple | no food | before couple's eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | couple not said here | everything | against the good God God | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against everything=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | couple's wretched soul | tree rules |
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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