Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 93
She could now sing at her leisure:
Who acts: courtier · What happens: sing · To what, where: leisure
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtier), 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 | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sing | advmod |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 leisure | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leisure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | courtier | courtier's leisure | now | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at leisure=Location |
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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