Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 3
Nobody knew where it went; many tears were shed for him, and little Gerda wept bitterly for a long time.
Who acts: Nobody, information, little Gerda · What happens: know, go, shed, weep · To what, where: many tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, information, little Gerda), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shed | punct |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tears | amod |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shed | aux:pass |
| 10 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knew | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wept | cc |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gerda | amod |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wept | nsubj |
| 17 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 18 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 17 wept | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past | information | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shed | past · passive | many tears | for Kay | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | little Gerda | time | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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