Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 22
You met, oh, how often!
Who acts: You · What happens: meet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 met | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 often | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 often | advmod |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 2 met | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | You | often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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