Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 47
Even my own hair-brush was in love with me, and lost all her hair through neglected love.
Who acts: own hair brush · What happens: be, lose, neglect · To what, where: love, hair, neglected love
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 (own hair brush), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 brush | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brush | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brush | amod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brush | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hair | punct |
| 6 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hair | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 19 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 love | amod |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | my own hair brush | love | with me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | love's hair | neglected love | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | neglect | participle | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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