Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 55
The naval officer's widow had never heard of them before.
Who acts: widow · What happens: not hear
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 (widow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | naval | naval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 officer | amod |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 widow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 officer | case |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 heard | advmod |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · perfect | the naval officer's widow | of waters = water; before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=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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