Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 58
Indeed, she keeps her own carriage; but still she travelled by the mail, with the rest, because she wished to show that she was not high-minded.
Who acts: lady · What happens: keep, travel, wish, show, not be · To what, where: own carriage · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (lady), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 keeps | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 carriage | amod |
| 7 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelled | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 travelled | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 travelled | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 travelled | nsubj |
| 12 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 mail | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mail | det |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travelled | obl | ||
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rest | det |
| 19 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travelled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wished | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 wished | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelled | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 show | mark |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | xcomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 minded | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 minded | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 minded | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 minded | advmod |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 minded | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 high | punct |
| 32 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 show | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | lady | lady's own carriage | indeed property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | |||
| 2 | travel | past | lady | still | by the mail; with the rest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mail=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wish | past | lady | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | lady | minded property | tree rules |
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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