Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 74
Still she said not a word of all this; she could not relieve her heart by telling the laborer's wife, lest the latter should think she did not enjoy her former position at the castle.
Who acts: journey, latter · What happens: not say, not relieve, tell, think, not enjoy · To what, where: word, heart, wife, former position, castle · 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 (journey, latter), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 word | nmod |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 all | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 relieve | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 relieve | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 relieve | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 relieve | advmod |
| 14 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 relieve | obj |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 telling | mark |
| 18 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 relieve | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 laborer | det |
| 20 | laborer | laborer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 laborer | case |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 telling | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 think | punct |
| 24 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 latter | det |
| 26 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 think | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | aux |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 relieve | conj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 enjoy | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 enjoy | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 enjoy | advmod |
| 32 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 think | ccomp |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 position | nmod:poss |
| 34 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 position | amod |
| 35 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enjoy | obj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 castle | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 castle | det |
| 38 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enjoy | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past | journey | a word of all | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | not relieve | could | journey | journey's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | journey not said here | the laborer's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | should | the latter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not enjoy | past · do-support | journey | journey's former position | the castle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus |
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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