Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 105
She had committed no crime against the law of the land; she was an honorable person, in a good position--that she knew.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: commit, be, know · To what, where: crime, honorable person
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 committed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 committed | aux |
| 3 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 crime | det |
| 5 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 law | det |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crime | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 law | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 person | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 person | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 person | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 16 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 person | amod |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 position | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 position | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 position | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 position | amod |
| 22 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 person | conj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 knew | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 committed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past · perfect | Anne | no crime | against the law of the land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Anne | a honorable person and a good position | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Anne | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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