Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 119
Alfred wept, and mamma wept, and they both wore mourning.
Who acts: Alfred, mamma, galleries · What happens: weep, wear, mourn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred, mamma, galleries), 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 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wept | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 5 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wept | nsubj |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wore | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wore | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wore | nsubj |
| 11 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 12 | mourning | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 wore | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Alfred | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | mamma | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wear | past | galleries = gallery | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mourn | gerund | galleries = gallery not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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