Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 23
Jurgen had never spent such a happy time since the famous burial feast, and yet Miss Clara was absent, except in the thoughts and memory of all.
Who acts: Jurgen, Miss · What happens: not spend, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, Miss), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spent | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 spent | advmod |
| 4 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obj |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 13 feast | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 11 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 12 | burial | burial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 absent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 absent | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 absent | advmod |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 absent | nsubj |
| 18 | Clara | Clara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Miss | flat |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 absent | cop |
| 20 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spent | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thoughts | punct |
| 22 | except | except | ADP | _ | 25 thoughts | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 thoughts | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 thoughts | det |
| 25 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 absent | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 memory | cc |
| 27 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thoughts | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 memory | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend | past · perfect | Jurgen | since the famous burial feast; time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Miss | yet | except the thoughts and memory of all; absent 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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