Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 112
Her mouth was closed; a single word would cost the lives of her brothers.
Who acts: single word · What happens: close, cost · To what, where: mouth, lives
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (single word), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cost | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cost | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cost | aux |
| 10 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 closed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lives | det |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cost | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lives | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | weight's mouth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cost | would | a single word | the lives of weight's brothers | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value |
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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