Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 5
But care and sorrow dwelt within these halls; the queen lay upon a sick bed, and the doctors declared that she must die. "
Who acts: care, queen, doctors · What happens: dwell, lie, declare, die · To what, where: sick bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, queen, doctors), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dwelt | cc |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sorrow | cc |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 care | conj |
| 5 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 halls | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 halls | det |
| 8 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dwelt | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dwelt | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bed | det |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bed | amod |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 declared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 declared | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doctors | det |
| 20 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 declared | nsubj |
| 21 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 die | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 die | aux |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 declared | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | care and sorrow | within this halls | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the queen | a sick bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | the doctors | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | must | queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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