Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 44

I shall never forget my first love; she was a girdle, so charming, and fine, and soft, and she threw herself into a washing tub for my sake.

Who acts: I, dancer, my · What happens: not forget, be, throw, love · To what, where: first love, girdle, dancer, washing tub

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dancer, my), 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 forget	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 love	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 love	amod
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 girdle	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 girdle	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 girdle	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girdle	det
12	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forget	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 charming	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 charming	advmod
15	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girdle	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fine	cc
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 soft	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 soft	cc
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fine	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 soft	parataxis
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 threw	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 tub	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tub	det
29	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tub	compound
30	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 sake	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sake	nmod:poss
33	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not forget	shall	I	my first love		tree rules
2	is a	past	dancer	a girdle and charming		tree rules
3	throw	past	dancer	dancer	into a washing tub result; for my sake	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into tub=Result
4	love		my			nom love «feeling 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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