Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 45
A week has passed; this morning his death was in the newspaper, that is the reason of the girl's mourning!
Who acts: morning, that, God, girl · What happens: pass, be, die, mourn · To what, where: week, newspaper, reason
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 (morning, that, God, girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 newspaper | punct |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 newspaper | nsubj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 newspaper | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 newspaper | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 newspaper | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 newspaper | det |
| 13 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reason | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 reason | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 reason | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reason | det |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 newspaper | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mourning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mourning | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 girl | case |
| 23 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reason | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect · passive | a week | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this morning | the newspaper and the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the reason | of the girl's mourning | tree rules | |||
| 4 | die | God | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mourn | the girl | nom mourning «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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