Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 40
It was the fairy, and her name was "Sorrow."
Who acts: sunbeam, name, fairy · What happens: be, name · To what, where: fairy, Sorrow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunbeam, name, fairy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fairy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fairy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sorrow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Sorrow | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Sorrow | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Sorrow | cop |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sorrow | punct |
| 11 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fairy | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fairy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sunbeam | the fairy and Sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | fairy's name | Sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | fairy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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