Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 46
The next was a first-rate dancer; she gave me the wound from which I still suffer, she was so passionate.
Who acts: next, dancer, I · What happens: be, give, suffer · To what, where: rate dancer, wound, me
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 (next, dancer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 next | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dancer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dancer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dancer | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 rate | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 7 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dancer | compound |
| 8 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dancer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wound | det |
| 14 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 suffer | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 suffer | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 suffer | advmod |
| 19 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wound | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passionate | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passionate | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 passionate | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 passionate | advmod |
| 24 | passionate | passionate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dancer | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the next | a rate dancer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | dancer | the wound | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wound=Theme | |||
| 3 | suffer | present | I | the wound | still | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | is | past | dancer | passionate property | 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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