Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 67
I shall never live after this;" and she wrung her little hands.
Who acts: I, Chinaman · What happens: not live, wring · To what, where: little hands
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 (I, Chinaman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrung | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wrung | nsubj |
| 11 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrung | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | shall | I | after this | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wring in a quote | past | Chinaman | Chinaman's little hands | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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