Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 145

His children were called "wellborn," and when he died, his widow was treated as a lady of position, and that was "something."

Who acts: street, that · What happens: call, die, treat, be · To what, where: children, widow, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street, that), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 children	nmod:poss
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wellborn	punct
6	wellborn	wellborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wellborn	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wellborn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 treated	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 died	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 treated	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 widow	nmod:poss
15	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 treated	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 treated	aux:pass
17	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 called	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 lady	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 treated	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 position	case
22	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lady	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 something	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 something	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 something	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 something	cop
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 something	punct
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 something	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · passive		street's children	wellborn property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	die	past	street			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	treat	past · passive		street's widow	as a lady of position	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as lady=Attribute
4	is a in a quote	past	that	something		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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