Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 102
She showed me clearly, in spirit and in truth, the difference there was between him and me. '
Who acts: angel · What happens: show, be · To what, where: me
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | iobj |
| 4 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 2 showed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spirit | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 truth | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 truth | case |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 difference | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 difference | det |
| 13 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | conj |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 him | cop |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 difference | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 me | cc |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 him | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spirit | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | angel | me | clearly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | between man | 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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