Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 142
"Oh, how I have wasted my time?" said little Gerda; "it is autumn.
Who acts: little Gerda, sun · What happens: waste, say, be · To what, where: autumn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Gerda, sun), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wasted | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 wasted | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wasted | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wasted | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wasted | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wasted | aux |
| 7 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 time | nmod:poss |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wasted | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wasted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wasted | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Gerda | amod |
| 14 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 autumn | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 autumn | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 autumn | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 autumn | cop |
| 19 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste in a quote | present · perfect | little Gerda = gerda | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | little Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | sun | autumn | 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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