Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 81
She had wished to keep back a soul from its immortal flight; she had forgotten her duties towards the living who were left her.
Who acts: mother, living · What happens: wish, keep back, forget, be · To what, where: soul, immortal flight, duties
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, living), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | aux |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | advcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 keep | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soul | det |
| 8 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 flight | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flight | amod |
| 12 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgotten | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 duties | nmod:poss |
| 18 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgotten | obj |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 living | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 living | det |
| 21 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgotten | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | cop |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 living | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past · perfect | mother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | keep back | to-infinitive | mother not said here | a soul | soul's immortal flight | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer soul=Beneficiary from flight=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | forget | past · perfect | mother | mother's duties | towards the living | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the living | leave 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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