Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 41
"Of the glorious days that are gone," said the Rat--"of the happy time of our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers.
Who acts: glorious days, Rat · What happens: be, say · 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 (glorious days, Rat), 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 | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 4 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | cop |
| 8 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Rat | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 grandfathers | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 grandfathers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grandfathers | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 great | punct |
| 24 | grandfathers | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 time | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grandmothers | cc |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grandmothers | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 great | punct |
| 28 | grandmothers | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grandfathers | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the glorious days | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Rat | 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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