Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 242
One moment of such happiness is worth an eternity of darkness and woe."
Who acts: One moment · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One moment), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 moment | nummod |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worth | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 happiness | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happiness | amod |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 worth | cop |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eternity | det |
| 9 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worth | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | case |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eternity | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 woe | cc |
| 13 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eternity | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One moment of such happiness | worth 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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