Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 4
Oh, what a misfortune is coming upon our house!
Who acts: misfortune · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misfortune), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 coming | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 coming | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 misfortune | det |
| 5 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | a misfortune | upon our house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
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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