Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 26
She was over-powered with her good fortune, which seemed always increasing, and therefore what might it become in the future?
Who acts: Helga, good fortune, fortune · What happens: be, seem, increase, become · To what, where: future
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, good fortune, fortune), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 over-powered | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 over-powered | cop |
| 3 | over-powered | over-powered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fortune | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 over-powered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fortune | acl:relcl |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 increasing | advmod |
| 12 | increasing | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 become | cc |
| 15 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 16 what | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 become | obj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 become | nsubj |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 over-powered | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 future | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 future | det |
| 22 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 become | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 over-powered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Helga | with Helga's good fortune; over-powered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | Helga's good fortune | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | increase | gerund | Helga's good fortune not said here | always property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | might | fortune | the future | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |
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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