Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 168
Many a night she was missed from her home, and was always found on the sea-shore waiting for the spectre.
Who acts: sea shore · What happens: miss, find, wait · To what, where: Many night, home, sea shore
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 (sea shore), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 missed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 missed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 missed | aux:pass |
| 6 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 missed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 found | advmod |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 missed | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shore | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sea | punct |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 shore | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 spectre | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spectre | det |
| 23 | spectre | spectre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past · passive | a Many night | Anne's home | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the sea shore | always property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the sea shore not said here | for the spectre | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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