Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 175
Marry! ha, ha!" and he laughed bitterly to himself at the thought.
Who acts: you, number · What happens: marry, laugh · To what, where: number, thought
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, number), 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 | Marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Marry | punct |
| 3 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 1 Marry | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 5 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 1 Marry | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Marry | conj |
| 11 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 10 laughed | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 laughed | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 thought | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thought | det |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | imperative | you not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | past | number | number | the thought | bitterly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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