Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 5
Oh, indeed those long winter days were very dreary.
Who acts: long winter days · What happens: be
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 (long winter days), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 dreary | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 dreary | advmod |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 days | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | compound |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dreary | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreary | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 dreary | advmod |
| 10 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that long winter days | dreary, indeed 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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