Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 106
Life returned to her, but she was delirious, and knew nothing of what had happened or where she was; and it was better so, for everything she loved and valued lay buried in the sea.
Who acts: Life, stranger · What happens: return, be, know, happen, love, value · To what, where: stranger, nothing, sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, stranger), 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 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 delirious | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 delirious | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 delirious | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delirious | cop |
| 9 | delirious | delirious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 returned | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 delirious | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 happened | mark |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 nothing | acl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 where | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 happened | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 was | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 where | advcl:relcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 better | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 better | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 better | expl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 better | cop |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 returned | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 loved | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 loved | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 everything | case |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 loved | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 loved | nsubj |
| 32 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 better | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 valued | cc |
| 34 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 loved | conj |
| 35 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 valued | advcl |
| 36 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 lay | xcomp |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 sea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sea | det |
| 39 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 buried | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Life | stranger | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | stranger | delirious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | stranger not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Life not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | past | stranger | for everything | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for everything=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | value | past | stranger not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | lie | past | stranger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | bury | participle | stranger not said here | the sea | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sea=Destination |
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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