Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 37
"That was the most delightful hour of my life," said he, "although it was only a dream.
Who acts: That, Joanna, life · What happens: be, say · To what, where: delightful hour, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Joanna, life), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hour | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hour | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 delightful | advmod |
| 6 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hour | amod |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hour | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dream | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 dream | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 dream | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dream | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dream | cop |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 dream | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dream | det |
| 22 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | the delightful hour | of my life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Joanna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | life | a dream | 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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