Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 16
My life was, so to speak, a ball night--a pressure of the hand, and I burst!
Who acts: life · What happens: be, burst, press · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speak | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speak | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 speak | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 speak | mark |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 night | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | compound |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 life | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 pressure | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pressure | det |
| 14 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 life | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pressure | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 burst | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 burst | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 burst | nsubj |
| 21 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | speak property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | burst | present | My life and a ball night and a pressure of the hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | press | the hand | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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