Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 36

The play was about two lovers, who were not allowed to marry, and the shepherdess wept because it was so like her own story. "

Who acts: play, two lovers, shepherdess · What happens: be, not allow, marry, weep · To what, where: two lovers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play, two lovers, shepherdess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 play	det
2	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lovers	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lovers	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lovers	nummod
6	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 story	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 allowed	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 allowed	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 allowed	advmod
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lovers	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 marry	mark
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 allowed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wept	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shepherdess	det
17	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wept	nsubj
18	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 allowed	conj
19	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wept	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 story	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 story	advmod
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 story	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 story	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 story	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 story	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the play	two lovers		tree rules
2	not allow	past · passive		two lovers		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	two lovers not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	weep	past	the shepherdess		because play	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			like comedy's own story	tree rules

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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