Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 89
What an evening of happiness this had been; to sleep after it was impossible, and Knud did not sleep.
Who acts: evening, Knud · What happens: be, sleep, not sleep
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 (evening, Knud), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 happiness | case |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | cop |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sleep | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | parataxis |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 impossible | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 impossible | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 impossible | cop |
| 15 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sleep | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sleep | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sleep | cc |
| 18 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sleep | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sleep | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sleep | advmod |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sleep | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | participle | a evening of happiness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not sleep | past · do-support | Knud | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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