Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 29
Our time is the time of progress, with its manifold blessings."
Who acts: time, progress · What happens: be, bless · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, progress), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 progress | case |
| 7 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blessings | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 blessings | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | manifold | manifold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blessings | compound |
| 12 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 time | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 blessings | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 blessings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Our time | the time | of progress | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bless | progress | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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