Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 45
She uttered a cry, but she felt safe and certain that he would not leave her to sink.
Who acts: bride, Jurgen · What happens: utter, feel, not leave, sink · To what, where: cry, bride
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, Jurgen), 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 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cry | det |
| 4 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uttered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | conj |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 certain | cc |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 safe | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 leave | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 leave | advmod |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 certain | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sink | mark |
| 19 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 leave | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | bride | a cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | bride | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not leave | would | Jurgen | bride | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | to-infinitive | bride not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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