Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 41
Again she repeated the word "brother," which was a great consolation certainly; and thus they parted.
Who acts: child, word, tears · What happens: repeat, be, part · To what, where: word, great consolation
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, word, tears), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 repeated | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeated | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brother | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 consolation | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 consolation | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 consolation | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 consolation | amod |
| 14 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | appos |
| 15 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 14 consolation | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 parted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 parted | cc |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 parted | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 parted | nsubj |
| 20 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | child | the word | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the word | a great consolation | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | part | past | tears = tear | thus property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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