Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 37
It certainly was not a very lively existence.
Who acts: hymn · What happens: not be · To what, where: lively existence
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 (hymn), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 existence | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 existence | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 existence | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 existence | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 existence | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 lively | advmod |
| 7 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 existence | amod |
| 8 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 existence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | hymn | a lively existence | certainly property | 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: «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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