Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 25
"It is my pleasure that she shall appear this evening." said the emperor; "the whole world knows what I possess better than I do myself."
Who acts: pleasure, emperor, whole world · What happens: be, appear, say, know, possess, do · To what, where: pleasure, better, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, emperor, whole world), 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 | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pleasure | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasure | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 appear | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appear | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | aux |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasure | csubj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasure | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 emperor | det |
| 16 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knows | nsubj |
| 22 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 possess | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 possess | nsubj |
| 25 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 knows | ccomp |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 possess | obj |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 better | advcl |
| 30 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 do | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | appear in a quote | shall | pleasure | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | the whole world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | possess in a quote | present | the emperor = emperor | better | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | the emperor = emperor | the emperor = emperor | vn act-114-1 «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: «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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