Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 34
But she has no one to mourn, neither father nor mother, neither relations nor sweetheart.
Who acts: Delayed · What happens: have, mourn · To what, where: one, father
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 (Delayed), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 mourn | mark |
| 7 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 father | cc:preconj |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mourn | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 mother | cc |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 relations | punct |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 relations | cc:preconj |
| 15 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 father | conj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 sweetheart | cc |
| 17 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 relations | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Delayed | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mourn | to-infinitive | Delayed not said here | father nor mother neither relations nor sweetheart | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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