Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 44
Anne Lisbeth had now lived in the town many years; she was called "Madame," and felt dignified in consequence; she remembered the old, noble days, in which she had driven in the carriage, and had associated with countess and baroness.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: live, call, feel, dignify, remember, drive · To what, where: town, Anne, consequence, carriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anne | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lived | parataxis |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Madame | punct |
| 16 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Madame | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Madame | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 21 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 consequence | case |
| 23 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dignified | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 remembered | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 remembered | nsubj |
| 26 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 days | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 days | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 old | punct |
| 30 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 days | amod |
| 31 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 remembered | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 driven | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 driven | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 driven | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 driven | aux |
| 37 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 remembered | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 carriage | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 carriage | det |
| 40 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 driven | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 associated | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 associated | cc |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 associated | aux |
| 44 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 remembered | parataxis |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 countess | case |
| 46 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 associated | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 baroness | cc |
| 48 | baroness | baroness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 countess | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | Anne | the town | now; year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Anne | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dignify | participle | consequence | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remember | past | Anne | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | drive | past · perfect | Anne | the carriage | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination in carriage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | associate | past · perfect | with countess and baroness | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with countess=Co-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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