Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 85
She acknowledged the goodness of God, she acknowledged the duties she had to perform, and eagerly she returned home.
Who acts: mother, duties · What happens: acknowledge, have, perform, return · To what, where: goodness, 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, duties), 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 | 2 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 2 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goodness | det |
| 4 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 acknowledged | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 God | case |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 goodness | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 acknowledged | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 9 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 acknowledged | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 duties | det |
| 11 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 acknowledged | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 duties | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 perform | mark |
| 15 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 18 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 20 returned | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 returned | nsubj |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 acknowledged | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 returned | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 acknowledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acknowledge | past | mother | the goodness of God | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Topic | ||||
| 2 | acknowledge | past | mother | the duties | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | mother | the duties not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perform | to-infinitive | the duties not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | return | past | mother | eagerly, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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