Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 18

This was how the world treated Anne Lisbeth's boy, and how could it be otherwise.

Who acts: This, world · What happens: be, treat · To what, where: world, boy

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 (This, world), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 how	nsubj
6	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 world	acl
7	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 boy	nmod:poss
8	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Anne	flat
9	's	's	PART	_	7 Anne	case
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treated	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 otherwise	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 otherwise	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 otherwise	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 otherwise	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 otherwise	nsubj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 otherwise	cop
17	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	3 how	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 how	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	This			how property	tree rules
2	treat	participle		the world not said here	Anne's boy		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	is	could	world			otherwise property	tree rules

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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