Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 190
No one had mentioned her name to Ib for years; it would have disturbed his peace of mind, especially as the reports respecting her were not good.
Who acts: reports, Christina, Ib · What happens: mention, disturb, respect, not be, name, pacify · To what, where: one, Ib, name, mind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reports, Christina, Ib), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mentioned | aux |
| 4 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mentioned | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Ib | case |
| 8 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mentioned | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mentioned | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 disturbed | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 disturbed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 disturbed | aux |
| 15 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mentioned | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 peace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disturbed | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 respecting | punct |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 25 respecting | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 respecting | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 reports | det |
| 24 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 respecting | nsubj |
| 25 | respecting | respect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 disturbed | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 good | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 good | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 good | advmod |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 respecting | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | past · perfect · passive | no one | Ib | year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | disturb | would · perfect · passive | name | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer peace=Result | |||||
| 3 | respect | gerund | the reports | especially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | Christina | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Christina | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | pacify | Ib | mind | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent of=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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