Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 207
How glorious it is to live and to bloom, to see old friends again, and happy faces every day.
Who acts: appointment · What happens: be, bloom, see · To what, where: old friends
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appointment), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 glorious | advmod |
| 2 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 live | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bloom | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bloom | mark |
| 9 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 live | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bloom | conj |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friends | amod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 faces | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 faces | cc |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 faces | amod |
| 19 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | obl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 faces | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | appointment | happy faces every day obl; live property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bloom | to-infinitive | appointment not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | appointment not said here | old friends | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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