Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 111
Soon her body became wretched too, and she was scarcely able to move a foot.
Who acts: body, couple · What happens: become, be, move · To what, where: foot
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 (body, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 body | nmod:poss |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 wretched | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 11 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 12 able | advmod |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 foot | det |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 move | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | couple's body | soon, wretched property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | couple | able, scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | couple not said here | a foot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
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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