Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 96
I was a young wild girl then, but honest; that I can declare in the sight of Heaven.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, declare, sight · To what, where: young wild girl, sight, Heaven
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 girl | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honest | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 honest | cc |
| 10 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 declare | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 declare | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 declare | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 declare | aux |
| 15 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 honest | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 declare | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Heaven | case |
| 20 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a young wild girl | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | can | I | the sight of Heaven | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sight | Heaven | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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