Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 5
Oh, these children were indeed happy, but it was not to remain so always.
Who acts: children, much · What happens: be, not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (children, much), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 remain | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remain | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 remain | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 remain | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 remain | mark |
| 14 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happy | ccomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 always | advmod |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 remain | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this children | happy, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | much | always, remain property | 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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