Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 74
"Yes," replied the woman, "He sends joy and sorrow, and He has a right to send them.
Who acts: woman, God · What happens: reply, send, have · To what, where: joy, right, women · 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 (woman, God), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sends | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sends | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sends | nsubj |
| 11 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sends | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sorrow | cc |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 has | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 has | cc |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sends | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 right | det |
| 20 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 send | mark |
| 22 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 right | acl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 send | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | God | joy and sorrow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | God | a right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | God not said here | women = woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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