Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 29
There was greater mirth and rejoicing than I had ever heard in the halls of the rich baronial house.
Who acts: greater mirth, I · What happens: be, rejoice, hear · To what, where: halls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greater mirth, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 mirth | amod |
| 4 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rejoicing | cc |
| 6 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 mirth | conj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 heard | advmod |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 rejoicing | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 halls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 halls | det |
| 14 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 18 | baronial | baronial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 halls | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | greater mirth | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | gerund | greater mirth not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | I | the halls of the rich baronial house | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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