Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 31
Ah well, it is enough for me that I have been able to live on the same counter with him,' said she one day; when suddenly, 'crack,' and she broke in two. '
Who acts: tender, I, heart · What happens: be, live, say, break · To what, where: same counter, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tender, I, heart), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 enough | discourse |
| 2 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 1 Ah | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enough | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 enough | cop |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 enough | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 able | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enough | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 counter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 counter | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 counter | amod |
| 19 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 live | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enough | parataxis |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 day | nummod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 suddenly | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 suddenly | advmod |
| 30 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 enough | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crack | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 crack | punct |
| 33 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enough | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 broke | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 broke | nsubj |
| 38 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enough | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 two | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 broke | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tender | for me; enough, suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | the same counter | with man | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | heart | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | break | past | heart | two | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location |
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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