Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 15
She answered, 'Alas! death is gnawing at my heart.
Who acts: coverlet, death · What happens: answer, gnaw · To what, where: Alas
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coverlet, death), 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 | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alas | punct |
| 5 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 answered | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 gnawing | punct |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gnawing | aux |
| 9 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gnawing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | coverlet | Alas | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gnaw | present · progressive | death | at my heart | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at heart=Patient |
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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