Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 36
One day she was engaged to a poor fellow; they loved each other dearly.
Who acts: utensils · What happens: engage, love · To what, where: Delayed, each
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 (utensils), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 engaged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | aux:pass |
| 5 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fellow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fellow | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engaged | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 engaged | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | Delayed | day | to a poor fellow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | love | past | utensils = utensil | each | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=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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