Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 59
But she was not without a protector; her younger brother, JULY, was with her.
Who acts: lady, younger brother · What happens: not be, be
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, younger brother), 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 | _ | 7 protector | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 protector | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 protector | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 protector | advmod |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 protector | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 protector | det |
| 7 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 her | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 JULY | punct |
| 13 | JULY | JULY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 her | cop |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 protector | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 protector | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | lady | without a protector | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lady's younger brother | with Carnival | 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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