Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 11
Yes, how many tears I have wept in the fifty years I have subscribed to the theatre!"
Who acts: I · What happens: weep, subscribe · To what, where: many tears, fifty years
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 wept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tears | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tears | amod |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wept | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wept | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wept | aux |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 years | det |
| 11 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wept | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 subscribed | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 subscribed | aux |
| 15 | subscribed | subscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 years | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 theatre | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 theatre | det |
| 18 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 subscribed | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · perfect · passive | many tears | year | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | subscribe | present · perfect | I | the fifty years not said here | to the theatre | 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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