Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 6
The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits."
Who acts: day, kindness · What happens: be, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, kindness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beautiful | cc |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 said | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | aux |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindness | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindness | punct |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 God | case |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 limits | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kindness | nmod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kindness | conj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 limits | cop |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 25 limits | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 limits | det |
| 25 | limits | limit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 warm | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the day | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the day not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | might · perfect · passive | one | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | God's kindness to us and men | beyond all limits | 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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