Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 204
For her sake, could he not love this child, who was a stranger to him?
Who acts: Ib, child · What happens: not love, be · To what, where: child, stranger, Ib
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 (Ib, child), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sake | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sake | punct |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 love | advmod |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stranger | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stranger | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stranger | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stranger | det |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 child | appos |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stranger | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | could | Ib | this child | for Christina's sake | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus for sake=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this child | a stranger | Ib | 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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