Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 46

Her old sweetheart is dead and has left a wife and three step-children, as the paper says; it sounds as if there is a crack, but the metal is pure.

Who acts: old sweetheart, paper, it, crack, metal · What happens: be, leave, say, sound · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old sweetheart, paper, it, crack), 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	3 sweetheart	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sweetheart	amod
3	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 dead	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 children	cc
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 children	nummod
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 children	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 step	punct
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wife	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 says	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 paper	det
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sounds	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sounds	nsubj
23	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 is	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 is	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sounds	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crack	det
29	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pure	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 pure	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 metal	det
33	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pure	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 pure	cop
35	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	girl's old sweetheart			dead property	tree rules
2	leave	present · perfect	girl's old sweetheart not said here	a wife and three step children			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	the paper				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sound	present	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	be	present	a crack		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the metal			pure property	tree rules

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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