Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 44
Mother Plague used to live here then; she killed people, but never rats.
Who acts: Mother, Plague · What happens: use, live, kill · To what, where: rats, people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Plague), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 2 | Plague | Plague | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 live | mark |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | conj |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rats | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 rats | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 rats | advmod |
| 15 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Mother | rats | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | here | then | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | Plague | people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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