Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 207
He never knew; for not another word escaped her lips.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: not know, escape · To what, where: Christina
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 knew | advmod |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 word | advmod |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escaped | obl |
| 9 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escaped | obj |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 escaped | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | Ib | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | escape | past | Ib not said here | Christina | for another word | 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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