Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 145
For three quarters of a year I was obliged to dress and undress him.
What happens: oblige, dress, undress · To what, where: I, 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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 quarters | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 quarters | nummod |
| 3 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 obliged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obliged | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 obliged | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 obliged | aux:pass |
| 9 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dress | mark |
| 11 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obliged | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 undress | cc |
| 13 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dress | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 undress | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | I | year | for three quarters | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 2 | dress | to-infinitive | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | undress | infinitive | husband | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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