Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 136
"May there be joy in the rooms, and under the green boughs," said the old ruler of the year.
Who acts: old ruler · What happens: be, say · To what, where: joy, rooms, green boughs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old ruler), 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 | _ | 5 joy | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | aux |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joy | cop |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rooms | det |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 joy | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 boughs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boughs | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boughs | amod |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boughs | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 boughs | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ruler | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ruler | amod |
| 20 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruler | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | may | joy | the rooms | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old ruler of the year | the green boughs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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