Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 83
The journey over the heath and the deep sand was only too quickly at an end.
Who acts: journey · What happens: be · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey), 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 | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nsubj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 heath | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heath | det |
| 5 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journey | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sand | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sand | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sand | amod |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heath | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 end | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 end | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 quickly | advmod |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 end | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the journey over the heath and the deep sand | at a end | quickly property | 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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