Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 106
Your sister Anastasia is the most beautiful and most innocent of maidens, and she shall consecrate the deed.
Who acts: sister · What happens: be, consecrate · To what, where: deed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sister | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beautiful | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 innocent | cc |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 innocent | advmod |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beautiful | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 maidens | case |
| 12 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 innocent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consecrate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 consecrate | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 consecrate | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 consecrate | aux |
| 17 | consecrate | consecrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deed | det |
| 19 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consecrate | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your sister | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Your sister not said here | of maidens | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | consecrate | shall | sister | the deed | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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