Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 45
Here rests a young lady, of a good family, who would always make her voice heard in society, and when she sang "Mi manca la voce,"[1] it was the only true thing she ever said in her life.
Who acts: good family, voice, woman · What happens: rest, make, hear, sing, be, say · To what, where: young lady, voice, society, Mi manca, only true thing, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good family, voice, woman), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rests | advmod |
| 2 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rests | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 family | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 family | amod |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rests | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 family | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 society | case |
| 20 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thing | cc |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 sang | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sang | nsubj |
| 25 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | advcl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 manca | punct |
| 27 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 manca | compound |
| 28 | manca | manca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sang | obj |
| 29 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 30 voce | compound |
| 30 | voce | voce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 manca | list |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sang | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 33 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 34 1 | punct |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 thing | discourse |
| 35 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 34 1 | punct |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 thing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thing | det |
| 39 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 40 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rests | parataxis |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 said | nsubj |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 said | advmod |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | acl:relcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 life | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 life | nmod:poss |
| 47 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 said | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | a young lady | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lady=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | would | a good family | woman's voice | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | participle | woman's voice not said here | society | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | woman | Mi manca | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location manca=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | voice | the only true thing | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | woman | the only true thing not said here | woman's life | ever | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in life=Manner |
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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