Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 30

It was not so, however; there was a being standing before his bed, and looking like the ghost of his deceased wife.

Who acts: moon · What happens: not be, be, look, decease, ghost · To what, where: deceased 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 (moon), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 so	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 so	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 so	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 was	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 standing	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 standing	det
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 standing	aux
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 so	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bed	nmod:poss
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 standing	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 ghost	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ghost	det
21	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looking	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	deceased	decease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 wife	amod
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ghost	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 so	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	moon			so property	tree rules
2	is	past · progressive	moon not said here		before wind's bed	stand property	tree rules
3	look	gerund	moon not said here			like the ghost of wind's deceased wife	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	decease	participle					vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	ghost			wind's deceased wife			nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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