Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 75
And this was the end of a life whose infancy was to have been surrounded with wealth and splendour had his parents lived!
Who acts: this, end, parents · What happens: be, surround, have, live · To what, where: end, infancy
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 (this, end, parents), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 end | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 life | det |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 infancy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 surrounded | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 surrounded | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 end | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wealth | case |
| 17 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 splendour | cc |
| 19 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wealth | conj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 parents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | ccomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the end | of a life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | past · perfect · passive | the end not said here | infancy | with wealth and splendour | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wealth=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | the end | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | past | end's parents | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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