Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 42
But Gerda could not close her eyes at all; she knew not whether she was to live or die.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: not close, not know, be, die · To what, where: eyes, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 close | cc |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 close | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 close | advmod |
| 5 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 close | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 close | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 close | advcl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knew | advmod |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 die | cc |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 live | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not close | could | Gerda | Gerda's eyes | all | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | not know | past | Gerda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Gerda | live property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | infinitive | Gerda not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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