Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 30
"This world is sufficient for me," said the husband, throwing his arm round his beautiful, sweet-tempered wife.
Who acts: world, husband · What happens: be, say, throw, temper · To what, where: arm · 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 (world, husband), 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 | _ | 5 sufficient | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sufficient | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sufficient | cop |
| 5 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sufficient | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sufficient | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sufficient | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throwing | punct |
| 14 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throwing | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tempered | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 sweet | punct |
| 23 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 wife | amod |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throwing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this world | for the husband = husband; sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | the husband not said here | husband's arm | round husband's beautiful tempered wife | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 4 | temper | participle | 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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