Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 59
“That is the happiest thing in the world!
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: happiest thing, world
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the happiest thing | the world | tree rules |
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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