Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 101
Gently and earnestly she drew me to her, and spake as if an angel were speaking.
Who acts: mistress, angel · What happens: draw, speak · To what, where: me, mother, spake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, angel), 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 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 drew | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 earnestly | cc |
| 3 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 1 Gently | conj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spake | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spake | cc |
| 11 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 speaking | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 speaking | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 angel | det |
| 15 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speaking | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 speaking | aux |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spake | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | mistress | me | mother | gently property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to she=Destination | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | a angel | spake not said here | 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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