Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 118
Oh, this is just what I was wishing for."
Who acts: this, I · What happens: be, wish
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 what | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wishing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wishing | aux |
| 9 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wishing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wishing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | past · progressive | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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