Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 128
At Michaelmas we were married, and for the first year everything went well with us.
Who acts: everything · What happens: marry, go · To what, where: we, Michaelmas
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 (everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3481): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Michaelmas | case |
| 2 | Michaelmas | Michaelmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 everything | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | we | Michaelmas | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | everything | year | with us; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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