Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 62
I had my own cushion, and there was a stove--it is the finest thing in the world at this season of the year.
Who acts: I, stove · What happens: have, be · To what, where: own cushion, finest thing, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stove), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cushion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cushion | amod |
| 5 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 thing | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thing | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thing | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thing | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 season | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 season | det |
| 23 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 season | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | my own cushion | season | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | |||
| 2 | be | past | a stove | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | stove | the finest thing | the world | 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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