Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 40
Thus her anger broke forth; it relieved her, however: otherwise she would have been more deeply grieved; but now she could sleep soundly, as youth only can sleep.
Who acts: anger, friend, youth · What happens: break, relieve, grieve, sleep, anger · To what, where: friend
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anger, friend, youth), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 anger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 relieved | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 relieved | nsubj |
| 8 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 relieved | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 however | punct |
| 11 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 relieved | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 grieved | punct |
| 13 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 20 grieved | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grieved | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 grieved | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 grieved | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 grieved | aux:pass |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 grieved | advmod |
| 19 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 20 grieved | advmod |
| 20 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 broke | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sleep | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 sleep | cc |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 sleep | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sleep | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sleep | aux |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 broke | conj |
| 27 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 26 sleep | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 youth | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 youth | case |
| 30 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sleep | conj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 sleep | advmod |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 sleep | aux |
| 33 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 youth | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | friend's anger | forth, thus property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | relieve | past | anger | friend | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | grieve | would · perfect · passive | friend | deeply, otherwise property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | sleep | could | friend | now | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | sleep | can | youth not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | anger | friend | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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