Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 45

There was a widow too, who was warmly in love with me, but I left her alone, and she became quite black.

Who acts: widow, I · What happens: be, leave, become · To what, where: love, widow

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 (widow, I), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 widow	det
4	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 widow	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 love	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
9	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	11 love	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 love	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 widow	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 love	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 left	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 became	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 black	advmod
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a widow and love		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a widow and love		love	with me; warmly property	tree rules
3	leave	past	I	widow		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	become	past	widow			black property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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