Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 22
A pious, faithful soul closed her eyes for ever; she was the pastor's wife.
Who acts: pious faithful soul, soul · What happens: close, be · To what, where: eyes, wife
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pious faithful soul, soul), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soul | det |
| 2 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soul | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pious | punct |
| 4 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soul | amod |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closed | nsubj |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 closed | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 closed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 wife | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wife | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pastor | det |
| 15 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 pastor | case |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | a pious faithful soul | soul's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | soul | the pastor's wife | 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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