Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 6
Oh, to travel, to travel!" cried he; "there is no greater happiness in the world: it is the height of my ambition.
Who acts: student, greater happiness, happiness, my · What happens: travel, cry, be, ambition · To what, where: height
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, greater happiness, happiness, my), 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 | _ | 4 travel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 travel | mark |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 travel | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 travel | mark |
| 7 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 travel | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 happiness | det |
| 17 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 happiness | amod |
| 18 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happiness | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 height | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 height | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 height | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 height | det |
| 26 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ambition | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ambition | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 height | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | to-infinitive | student not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | student not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | student | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no greater happiness in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | happiness | the height | of my ambition | tree rules | |||
| 6 | ambition | my | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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