Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 51
His uncle's wife uttered not a word, nor shed a tear, till the corpse was brought in; then her agony burst forth.
Who acts: wife, agony · What happens: not utter, shed, bring in, burst · To what, where: word, tear, corpse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, agony), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 uncle | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uttered | nsubj |
| 5 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 uttered | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uttered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shed | punct |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 shed | cc |
| 11 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uttered | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tear | det |
| 13 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 corpse | det |
| 17 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shed | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 burst | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 burst | advmod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 agony | nmod:poss |
| 24 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burst | nsubj |
| 25 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uttered | conj |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 burst | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not utter speech: other | past | Rudy's uncle's wife | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | a tear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | |||||
| 3 | bring in | past · passive | the corpse | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 4 | burst | past | wife's agony | then | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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