Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 31
"Frost-bitten!" said the North Wind, with a loud laugh; "why frost is my greatest delight.
Who acts: North Wind, frost · What happens: bite, say, be · To what, where: greatest delight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (North Wind, frost), 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 | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
| 2 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bitten | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Frost | punct |
| 4 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wind | det |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wind | compound |
| 10 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laugh | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 laugh | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 laugh | det |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 laugh | amod |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Wind | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 delight | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 delight | punct |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 delight | advmod |
| 19 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 delight | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 delight | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 delight | nmod:poss |
| 22 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 delight | amod |
| 23 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the North Wind and a loud laugh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | frost | my greatest delight | 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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