Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 33
All this a single servant has done, and yet she has time to spare as if she wished to go to church; she wears a bow on her cap, a black bow, that signifies mourning.
Who acts: this, Delayed, black bow · What happens: servant, do, have, spare, wish, go · To what, where: single servant, church, bow, cap, mourning
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Delayed, black bow), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 servant | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 servant | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 servant | amod |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 has | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | parataxis |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spare | mark |
| 15 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 wished | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 wished | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wished | nsubj |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spare | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wished | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 wears | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wears | nsubj |
| 26 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 has | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bow | det |
| 28 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wears | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 cap | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cap | nmod:poss |
| 31 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wears | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bow | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bow | det |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bow | amod |
| 35 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cap | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 signifies | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 signifies | nsubj |
| 38 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bow | acl:relcl |
| 39 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 signifies | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servant | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect · passive | all single servant | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Delayed | yet; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive | Delayed not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish a condition, not said to happen | past | Delayed | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Delayed not said here | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | wear | present | Delayed | a bow | Delayed's cap | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bow=Source | |||
| 8 | signify | present | a black bow | mourning | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mourning=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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