Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 144
Just about this time, my dear sweet boy, who lies sleeping there, was born, and my husband was attacked with a severe lingering illness.
Who acts: dear sweet boy · What happens: lie, sleep, bear, attack · To what, where: time, husband
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 (dear sweet boy), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boy | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lies | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 boy | acl:relcl |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lies | xcomp |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sleeping | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 attacked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 attacked | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 attacked | aux:pass |
| 23 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 born | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 illness | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 illness | det |
| 26 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 illness | amod |
| 27 | lingering | lingering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illness | compound |
| 28 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attacked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | my dear sweet boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | my dear sweet boy not said here | there | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | this time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | attack | past · passive | my husband | with a severe lingering illness | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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