Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 65
His family and servants stood round him; he was not dead, although he could scarcely be said to live.
Who acts: family, lord · What happens: stand, not be, say, live · To what, where: lord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, lord), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 servants | cc |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 family | conj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dead | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dead | advmod |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 19 said | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | aux:pass |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | lord's family and servants | round lord | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | lord | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | could · passive | lord | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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