Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 16
She felt she was committing a sin against Rudy, a sin against God.
Who acts: Babette · What happens: feel, commit · To what, where: sin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 committing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 committing | aux |
| 5 | committing | commit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sin | det |
| 7 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 committing | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 Rudy | case |
| 9 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 committing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sin | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sin | det |
| 12 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Rudy | appos |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 God | case |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sin | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Babette | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | commit | past · progressive | Babette | a sin | against Rudy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=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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