Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 110
He is a widower, without children, and in a good position.
Who acts: Eric · What happens: be · To what, where: widower
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 (Eric), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 widower | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 widower | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 widower | det |
| 4 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 children | punct |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 widower | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 position | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 position | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 position | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 position | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 position | amod |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 widower | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 widower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Eric | a widower and a good position | 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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