Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 33
But the way was unfit for the girls; they would have torn their dresses.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, tear · To what, where: girls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | _ | 5 unfit | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unfit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unfit | cop |
| 5 | unfit | unfit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 girls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girls | det |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unfit | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 torn | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 torn | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 torn | aux |
| 13 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 unfit | parataxis |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 torn | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unfit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the way | for the girls; unfit property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | would · perfect · passive | girls = girl | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient dress=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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