Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 11
Were these the glad notes of joy?
Who acts: these · What happens: be, note · To what, where: joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these), 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 | Were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Were | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 notes | det |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 notes | amod |
| 5 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notes | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | these | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | note | joy | nom note «communication transitive»: of=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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