Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 37

That was a romantic time, as one may say."

Who acts: That, one · What happens: be, say · To what, where: romantic time · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, one), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 say	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a romantic time					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	may	one						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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