Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 40
Oh! when will Christmas be here?
Who acts: Christmas · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 here | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 here | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 here | aux |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 here | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 here | cop |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Christmas | here property | tree rules |
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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