Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 45
Those were happy days; but they could not last forever.
Who acts: happy days · What happens: be, not last · To what, where: happy days
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 (happy 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 days | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 days | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 last | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 last | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 last | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 last | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 last | advmod |
| 10 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 10 last | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that happy days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not last | could | that happy days | forever property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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