Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 78
The world grew young again to her, as she said, "It is a blessed time out here to-day."
Who acts: world, Many · What happens: grow, say, be · To what, where: dame, blessed time · 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 (world, Many), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 world | det |
| 2 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 here | advmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 time | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 here | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the world | dame | again | young property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | world | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Many | a blessed time | here | 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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