Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 88
Oh, what a fright and a joy it was!
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fright | det |
| 5 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 joy | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joy | det |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fright | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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