Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 171
There were a few mild days, as your honor, no doubt, knows.
Who acts: few mild days, honor, your · What happens: be, know, honor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few mild days, honor, your), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 5 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 honor | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 honor | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 honor | nmod:poss |
| 10 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 doubt | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 doubt | det |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 honor | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knows | punct |
| 15 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 honor | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a few mild days | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | your honor and no doubt not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | honor | your | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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