Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 12
"Life is a gracious gift from God, almost too great a gift for us to appreciate!" said the young wife. "
Who acts: Life, us, young wife · What happens: be, appreciate, say · To what, where: gracious gift, great gift · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Life, us, young wife), 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 | _ | 6 gift | punct |
| 2 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gift | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 5 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gift | amod |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 God | case |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gift | punct |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gift | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gift | det |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 appreciate | mark |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 appreciate | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 appreciate | mark |
| 18 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gift | acl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 gift | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 gift | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wife | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 wife | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Life | a gracious gift and a great gift | from God | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appreciate in a quote | to-infinitive | us | a great gift not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the young wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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