Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 72
What a journey that was: It was like taking fresh breath out of the cold dungeon air into the warm sunshine.
Who acts: journey · What happens: be · To what, where: cold dungeon air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 journey | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journey | acl:relcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | cop |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 taking | mark |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breath | amod |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 air | amod |
| 17 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 air | compound |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sunshine | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sunshine | det |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sunshine | amod |
| 22 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | what journey | the cold dungeon air | into the warm sunshine; take 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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