Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 26
How wonderful it is, that after all I have suffered, I am made something of at last; I am the luckiest person in the world--so strong and fine; and how white, and what a length!
Who acts: song, I · What happens: be, suffer, make · To what, where: all, luckiest person, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 wonderful | advmod |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonderful | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 suffered | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffered | aux |
| 11 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wonderful | advcl |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 person | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 person | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 person | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 24 | luckiest | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 person | amod |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wonderful | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 person | nmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 strong | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 strong | advmod |
| 31 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wonderful | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fine | cc |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 strong | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 white | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 white | cc |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 white | advmod |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wonderful | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 what | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 what | cc |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 wonderful | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 length | det |
| 42 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 what | nsubj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | song | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | present · perfect | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary something=Product | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | the luckiest person | the world | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | song not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | song not said here | 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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