Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 17
Ah, how much there was for him in that childish story.
What happens: be · To what, where: childish story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 story | cop |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 story | det |
| 11 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that childish story | 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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