Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 27
"The word was so easy, the deed so small," she said, "the joy it afforded me was infinitely great and sweet!"
Who acts: word, girl, joy · What happens: be, say, afford · To what, where: joy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, girl, joy), 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 | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deed | det |
| 9 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 easy | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 small | advmod |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deed | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 great | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 joy | det |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 great | nsubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 afforded | nsubj |
| 21 | afforded | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 joy | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 great | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 great | cop |
| 24 | infinitely | infinitely | ADV | _ | 25 great | advmod |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sweet | cc |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 great | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 great | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the word | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | afford in a quote | past | word | the joy not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | the joy | great, infinitely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | the joy not said 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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