Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 7
Happy even was he who was born a hundred years ago, for then there was still something about which a poem could be written.
Who acts: something · What happens: bear, be, write · To what, where: man, poem
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 born | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Happy | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hundred | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 born | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 was | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | conj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 something | advmod |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 written | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 poem | det |
| 22 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 written | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 written | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 written | aux:pass |
| 25 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 something | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | man | ago property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | past | something | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | write | could · passive | a poem | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about which=Topic |
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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