Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 36
He did so, for he knew her husband could not endure the sight of a sexton.
Who acts: farmer, husband · What happens: do, know, not endure, sight · To what, where: sight, sexton · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 endure | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 endure | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 endure | advmod |
| 12 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 endure | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sexton | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sexton | det |
| 17 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | farmer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | farmer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not endure | could | best's husband | the sight of a sexton | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sight=Circumstance | ||||
| 4 | sight | a sexton | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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