Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 39
O heavens! 'tis a long time since I have thought on those times.
Who acts: I · What happens: ti, think
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 2 heavens | case |
| 2 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tis | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 heavens | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 heavens | punct |
| 5 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tis | obj |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | aux |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 tis | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 times | case |
| 14 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 times | det |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ti | present | time | of heavens | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · perfect | I | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «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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