Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 49
She used to go round among the families near, and search out their faults, upon which she preyed with all the envy and malice of her nature.
Who acts: woman, things · What happens: use, go round, search out, prey, fault · To what, where: families, faults
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 (woman, things), 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 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 families | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 families | det |
| 8 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 search | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 search | cc |
| 12 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 search | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 faults | nmod:poss |
| 15 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 search | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 preyed | punct |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 preyed | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 preyed | nsubj |
| 20 | preyed | prey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 search | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 envy | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 envy | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 envy | det |
| 24 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 preyed | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 malice | cc |
| 26 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 envy | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 nature | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 nature | nmod:poss |
| 29 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 malice | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | woman | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go round | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the families | near, round property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among family=Location | |||
| 3 | search out | infinitive | woman not said here | things's faults | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fault=Location | ||||
| 4 | prey | past | woman | with all envy and malice of woman's nature | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fault | things = thing | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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