Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 250
Alas! what have I done?" he sighed; "I have sinned like Adam, and the garden of paradise has sunk into the earth."
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: do, sigh, sin, sink · To what, where: garden, earth
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 (I, prince), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 done | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 done | obj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sighed | advcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sighed | nsubj |
| 10 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sinned | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sinned | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sinned | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sinned | aux |
| 15 | sinned | sin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sighed | ccomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 Adam | case |
| 17 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sinned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sunk | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sunk | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 paradise | case |
| 23 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 garden | nmod |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sunk | aux |
| 25 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sinned | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sunk | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sighed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sigh in a quote | past | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sin | present · perfect | I | like Adam | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sink | present · perfect · passive | the garden of paradise | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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