Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 69
"They have at least brought lasting happiness to him who slumbers here," she said.
Who acts: goloshes, reaper · What happens: have, bring, last, slumber, say · To what, where: least, happiness, Care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (goloshes, reaper), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 least | case |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 brought | obl |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 7 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 brought | xcomp |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lasting | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lasting | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 slumbers | nsubj |
| 12 | slumbers | slumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lasting | parataxis |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lasting | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | goloshes = golosh | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | past | goloshes = golosh not said here | least | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | last in a quote | gerund | goloshes = golosh not said here | happiness | Care | here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme happiness=Value | ||
| 4 | slumber in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | reaper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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