Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 46

The neighbors were separated, the mother of the little girl was dead, and her father had thoughts of marrying again and of residing in the capital, where he had been promised a very lucrative appointment as messenger.

Who acts: mother, father, thoughts · What happens: separate, be, have, marry, reside, promise · To what, where: neighbors, thoughts, capital, father

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father, thoughts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbors	det
2	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 separated	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 separated	aux:pass
4	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 separated	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 separated	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 separated	parataxis
19	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 marrying	mark
21	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 thoughts	acl
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 marrying	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 residing	cc
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 residing	mark
25	residing	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 marrying	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 capital	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 capital	det
28	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 residing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 promised	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 promised	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 promised	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 promised	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 promised	aux:pass
34	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 capital	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 appointment	det
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 lucrative	advmod
37	lucrative	lucrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 appointment	amod
38	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 promised	obj
39	as	as	ADP	_	40 messenger	case
40	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 appointment	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	past · passive		the neighbors				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the mother of the little girl				dead property	tree rules
3	have	past	girl's father	thoughts				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
4	marry	gerund	thoughts not said here			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	reside	gerund	thoughts not said here		the capital			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in capital=Location
6	promise speech: promise	past · perfect · passive		father				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal appointment=Theme

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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