Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 100
The wife of the Viking lived in constant pain and sorrow about it.
Who acts: wife · What happens: live · To what, where: constant pain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Viking | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Viking | det |
| 5 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | nmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 8 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pain | amod |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sorrow | cc |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pain | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sorrow | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the wife of the Viking | constant pain and sorrow about sorrow | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pain=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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