Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 10
The happy little one was to be welcomed with rejoicing, to be cared for with love and tenderness, and enjoy every advantage of wealth and luxury that a rich and influential family can give.
Who acts: rich family · What happens: welcome, care, enjoy, give · To what, where: happy little one, advantage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich family), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 welcomed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 8 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rejoicing | case |
| 10 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcomed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cared | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cared | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cared | aux:pass |
| 14 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 welcomed | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cared | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tenderness | cc |
| 19 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enjoy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 enjoy | cc |
| 22 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcomed | parataxis |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 advantage | det |
| 24 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enjoy | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wealth | case |
| 26 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 advantage | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 luxury | cc |
| 28 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 advantage | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 family | det |
| 31 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 family | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 influential | cc |
| 33 | influential | influential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 rich | conj |
| 34 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 enjoy | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past · passive | the happy little one | with rejoicing | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | care | to-infinitive · passive | for love and tenderness | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: for love=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | infinitive | every advantage of wealth and luxury | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give | can | a rich family | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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