Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 45
Yes, this is my fate," and he sighed deeply.
Who acts: this, Amidst · What happens: be, sigh · To what, where: fate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Amidst), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 fate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fate | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fate | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fate | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fate | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sighed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sighed | nsubj |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 11 sighed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | my fate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sigh in a quote | past | Amidst | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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