Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 234

She did not live to see many anniversaries of the festival of the Three Kings; Holberg has recorded that she died in June, 1716; but he has not written down, for he did not know, that a number of great black birds circled over the ferry-house, when Mother Soren, as she was called, was lying there a corpse.

Who acts: One, Marie, number · What happens: not live, see, record, die, not write down, not know · To what, where: many anniversaries, Holberg, great black birds, ferry house, Mother, corpse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, Marie, number), 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	4 live	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	xcomp
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 anniversaries	amod
8	anniversaries	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 festival	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 festival	det
11	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anniversaries	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Kings	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Kings	det
14	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Kings	nummod
15	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 festival	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 recorded	punct
17	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 recorded	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 recorded	aux
19	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 live	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 recorded	ccomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 June	case
24	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 died	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 1716	punct
26	1716	1716	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 June	appos
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 written	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 written	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 written	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 written	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 written	advmod
32	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 live	parataxis
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 written	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 know	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 know	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 know	advmod
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 lying	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 lying	mark
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 number	det
43	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 lying	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 birds	case
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 birds	amod
46	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 birds	amod
47	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 number	nmod
48	circled	circle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 birds	acl
49	over	over	ADP	_	53 house	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 house	det
51	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 house	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 ferry	punct
53	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 circled	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 called	punct
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	62 called	advmod
56	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 called	nsubj:pass
57	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Mother	flat
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 called	punct
59	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 called	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 called	nsubj:pass
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 called	aux:pass
62	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 birds	acl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 number	punct
64	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 lying	aux
65	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 know	conj
66	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 lying	advmod
67	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 corpse	det
68	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 lying	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not live	past · do-support	One				tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	One not said here	many anniversaries of the festival of the Three Kings			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anniversary=Stimulus
3	record	present · perfect · passive		Holberg			tree rules
4	die	past	One			june	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not write down	present · perfect	Marie				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not know	past · do-support	Marie				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	circle	participle		great black birds not said here	the ferry house		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	call	past · passive		Mother			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
9	lie	past · progressive	a number of great black birds	a corpse	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corpse=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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