Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 35
This was my destiny; it is quite a blessing.
Who acts: This, linen · What happens: be · To what, where: destiny, blessing
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 (This, linen), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 destiny | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 destiny | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 4 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 blessing | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blessing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 blessing | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 blessing | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blessing | det |
| 10 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 destiny | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 destiny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | my destiny and quite blessing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | linen | quite blessing | 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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