Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 132
"Yes, so it may; but to-night is the hundred and first wedding, and when that has taken place it must be the last, therefore this is to be extremely beautiful.
Who acts: doll, this · What happens: be, take · To what, where: hundred, that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doll, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 may | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 may | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 may | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 may | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hundred | aux |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hundred | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hundred | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hundred | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hundred | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wedding | cc |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 wedding | amod |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hundred | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 taken | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 taken | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 taken | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hundred | parataxis |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 last | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 last | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 last | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 last | det |
| 29 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 taken | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 beautiful | punct |
| 31 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 37 beautiful | advmod |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 beautiful | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 beautiful | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 beautiful | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 beautiful | cop |
| 36 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 37 beautiful | advmod |
| 37 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 last | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hundred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | may | the hundred and first wedding | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | doll | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | this | beautiful, extremely, therefore 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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