Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 8
"We are as happy as human beings can be," said the young couple from the depths of their hearts.
Who acts: We, young couple · What happens: be, say · 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 (We, young couple), 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 happy | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 be | mark |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beings | amod |
| 8 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 be | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 be | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 couple | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 couple | amod |
| 16 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 depths | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 depths | det |
| 19 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 couple | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hearts | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 depths | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | We | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young couple from the depths of beings's hearts | 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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