Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 28
Unfortunately I have not long to live--the shortest time, in fact, of my whole family--only twenty-eight days.
What happens: live · To what, where: fact
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | advcl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fact | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fact | case |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 family | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 family | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 family | amod |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fact | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 days | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 eight | advmod |
| 22 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 eight | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 twenty | punct |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fact | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | to-infinitive | fact and my whole family and eight days | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fact=Location |
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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