Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 69
She was gentle and pious, an angel of blessing in that house of poverty.
Who acts: Sarah · What happens: be
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gentle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gentle | cop |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pious | cc |
| 5 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gentle | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 angel | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gentle | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blessing | case |
| 10 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angel | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blessing | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 poverty | case |
| 15 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sarah | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sarah not said here | tree rules |
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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