Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 81
She thought it would help her to remember the place if she made a large cross on the door with a piece of chalk.
Who acts: princess, house · What happens: think, help, remember, make · To what, where: princess, place, large cross, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, house), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 remember | mark |
| 8 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remember | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remember | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cross | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cross | amod |
| 16 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 piece | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chalk | case |
| 24 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piece | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | would | house | princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remember | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the place | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | past | princess | a large cross | the door | with a piece of chalk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Product |
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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