Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 16
I was glad too, for I expected we should have some warm days, but my hopes have come to nothing.
Who acts: I, we, hopes, my · What happens: be, expect, have, come, hope · To what, where: nothing
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 (I, we, hopes, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 glad | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 expected | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 expected | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 expected | nsubj |
| 8 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | conj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 expected | ccomp |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 days | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 glad | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 nothing | case |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | should | we | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | my hopes | nothing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nothing=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | hope | my | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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