Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 25
"Oh were I rich! again is all my prayer: That child is now a woman, fair and free, As good and beautiful as angels are.
Who acts: RICH, child · What happens: be · To what, where: prayer, woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (RICH, child), 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 | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 rich | discourse |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prayer | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 rich | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 prayer | cop |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 prayer | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 woman | punct |
| 13 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 woman | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 woman | cop |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 woman | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayer | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fair | punct |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 free | cc |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fair | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 24 | As | as | ADP | _ | 25 good | case |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 good | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 angels | case |
| 29 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beautiful | obl |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 woman | cop |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | RICH | again | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | rich | my prayer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that child | a woman | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | that child not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | that child 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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