Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 60
"I felt quite light, my cheerfulness had returned, and I was the happiest of mortals.
Who acts: donna · What happens: feel, return, be · To what, where: cheerfulness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donna), 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 | _ | 3 felt | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 light | advmod |
| 5 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cheerfulness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | aux |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 light | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happiest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happiest | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 happiest | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happiest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 happiest | det |
| 16 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 felt | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mortals | case |
| 18 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 happiest | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | past | donna | light property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | return in a quote | past · perfect · passive | my cheerfulness | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | donna | of mortals; happy 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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