Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 253
Poultry Meg had nothing left to wish for; she looked forward with pleasure to her death, and she was old enough to die.
Who acts: Poultry · What happens: have, leave, wish, look, be, die · To what, where: nothing
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 (Poultry), 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 | Poultry | Poultry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Meg | Meg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Poultry | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wish | mark |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wish | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pleasure | case |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleasure | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 old | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 old | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 old | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 old | cop |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | parataxis |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 old | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 old | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Poultry | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wish | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | look | past | Poultry | with pleasure to Poultry's death; forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Poultry | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | die | to-infinitive | Poultry not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | die | Poultry | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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