Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 9
"The wonder of the present time," it had been called.
Who acts: wonder · What happens: call, wonder · To what, where: reply, present 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 (wonder), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wonder | det |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonder | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wonder | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · perfect · passive | the wonder of the present time not said here | reply | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | wonder in a quote | the present time | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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