Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 51
"It is a great and pleasant thought to know that a shooting star falls upon our graves.
Who acts: It, shooting star · What happens: be, know, fall · To what, where: great thought, graves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, shooting star), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | cc |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 great | conj |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | csubj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 falls | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 star | det |
| 13 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 star | compound |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 falls | nsubj |
| 15 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 graves | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 graves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 falls | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | It | a great thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | present | a shooting star | our graves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon grave=Location |
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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