Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 48
She had to be nursed and waited upon, and this was no one's duty more than Karen's.
Who acts: Karen, this · What happens: have, nurse, wait, be · To what, where: duty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, this), 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 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 nursed | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nursed | aux:pass |
| 5 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 waited | cc |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nursed | conj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 waited | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 duty | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 duty | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 duty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 duty | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 duty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 one | case |
| 16 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | parataxis |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 duty | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Karen | case |
| 19 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Karen | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Karen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nurse | to-infinitive · passive | Karen not said here | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» | |||||
| 3 | wait | participle | Karen not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | no one's duty | 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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