Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 65
And herein lies the truest pleasure, for joy which we cannot share with others is only half enjoyed."
Who acts: we, half · What happens: lie, not share, be · To what, where: truest pleasure, joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, half), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lies | cc |
| 2 | herein | herein | ADV | _ | 3 lies | advmod |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pleasure | det |
| 5 | truest | true | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 pleasure | amod |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joy | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleasure | appos |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 share | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 share | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 share | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 share | advmod |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 joy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 share | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 enjoyed | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 half | advmod |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 20 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleasure | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the truest pleasure | herein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not share | can | we | joy | with others | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | half | enjoy 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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