Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 95
Ah, really he must be very happy; I cannot endure this life."
Who acts: comrade, I · What happens: be, not endure · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, I), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 endure | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 endure | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 endure | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 endure | advmod |
| 13 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 life | det |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 endure | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | comrade | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not endure | can | I | this life | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Circumstance |
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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