Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 132
I saw the most miserable things going on between husbands and wives, parents and children,--sweet, incomparable children.
Who acts: I, miserable things · What happens: see, go on · To what, where: miserable things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, miserable things), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 things | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 miserable | advmod |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 going | compound:prt |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 husbands | case |
| 10 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wives | cc |
| 12 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 husbands | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 parents | punct |
| 14 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 husbands | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 children | cc |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 husbands | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweet | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 sweet | punct |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 children | punct |
| 21 | incomparable | incomparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 children | amod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sweet | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | the miserable things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | gerund | the miserable things not said here | between husbands and wives and parents and children | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between husband=Location |
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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