Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 8
"The poor little children, how happy they are--how merrily they play and romp together!
Who acts: poor little children, children · What happens: be, play, romp
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 (poor little children, children), 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 happy | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 merrily | advmod |
| 13 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 15 play | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 play | nsubj |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 romp | cc |
| 17 | romp | romp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 play | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 romp | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the poor little children | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | present | children = child | merrily property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | romp in a quote | present | children = child not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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