Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 68
Sarah worked hard, but contrived to spare time to amuse her and watch by the sick bed.
Who acts: Sarah · What happens: work, contrive, spare, amuse, watch · To what, where: Sarah
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sarah), 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 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 worked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 contrived | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 contrived | cc |
| 6 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 contrived | xcomp |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 amuse | mark |
| 11 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 amuse | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watch | cc |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 amuse | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bed | det |
| 17 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bed | amod |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watch | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Sarah | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | contrive | past | Sarah not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | Sarah not said here | time | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | amuse | to-infinitive | Sarah not said here | Sarah | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | watch | infinitive | Sarah not said here | by the sick bed | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location |
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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