Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 42
It had served its purpose, and it had been loved, which Anne Lisbeth's boy had not been.
Who acts: boy, glass · What happens: serve, love, not be, purpose · To what, where: glass
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 (boy, glass), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 served | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 served | aux |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 served | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loved | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loved | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 loved | aux:pass |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 served | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 been | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 been | obj |
| 14 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 boy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Anne | flat |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Anne | case |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 been | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 been | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 been | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 loved | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · perfect · passive | glass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | love | past · perfect · passive | glass | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not be | past · perfect | Anne's boy | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||||
| 4 | purpose | glass | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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