Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 69
There were evil words between the father and the daughter, and that ought never to be.
Who acts: evil words · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: that
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 (evil words), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughter | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 be | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 be | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 be | obl |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 be | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 be | mark |
| 17 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 were | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | evil words between the father and the daughter | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not be | ought | evil words between the father and the daughter not said here | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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