Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 56
She thought of her brothers, and felt sure that God would not forsake her.
Who acts: daughter, God · What happens: think, feel, not forsake · To what, where: daughter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (daughter, God), 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 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 brothers | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 felt | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 forsake | mark |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forsake | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forsake | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forsake | advmod |
| 14 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forsake | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | daughter | of daughter's brothers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | daughter not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not forsake | would | God | daughter | 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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