Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 29

Poor child! thy friend's bridal chamber is a black coffin, and thou becomest an old maid.

Who acts: Poor child, thou · What happens: be, become · To what, where: black coffin, old maid

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor child, thou), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 child	amod
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coffin	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
4	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chamber	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case
7	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chamber	amod
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coffin	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coffin	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coffin	det
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coffin	amod
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 becomest	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 becomest	cc
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 becomest	nsubj
16	becomest	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 coffin	parataxis
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 maid	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 maid	amod
19	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomest	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 coffin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Poor child	a black coffin					tree rules
2	become	present	thou	a old maid					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient maid=Result

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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