Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 47
She was engaged to be married,--but, her story is one of every-day life; we will leave her to rest in the grave.
Who acts: story, we · What happens: engage, marry, be, leave, rest · To what, where: woman, one, grave
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 (story, we), 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 | 3 engaged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | aux:pass |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 engaged | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 one | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 but | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 engaged | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 every | punct |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 life | compound |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 leave | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 leave | aux |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 engaged | parataxis |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rest | mark |
| 26 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leave | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 grave | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 grave | det |
| 29 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rest | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | woman | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | woman's story | one | of day life | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | future | we | woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | we not said here | the grave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grave=Location |
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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