Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 64
He who was in the wrong, and who ought to ask her forgiveness; for did she not love him with her whole heart?
Who acts: Rudy, miller · What happens: be, ask, not love · To what, where: forgiveness, Rudy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, miller), 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 | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wrong | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wrong | det |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ask | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wrong | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forgiveness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 love | mark |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 love | aux |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 love | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 love | advmod |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 love | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heart | amod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 love | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rudy | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | ought | miller's forgiveness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not love | past · do-support | miller | Rudy | with miller's whole heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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