Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 29
We saw this from above; and looked at from above, how many a grief of our own and of others can make us smile!
Who acts: We, others, us · What happens: see, look, make, smile · To what, where: this, many grief, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, others, us), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 above | case |
| 5 | above | above | ADV | _ | 2 saw | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 above | case |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 above | case |
| 11 | above | above | ADV | _ | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grief | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grief | amod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grief | det |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grief | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 looked | conj |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | We | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | a many grief of our own | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at above=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | can | others | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | smile | infinitive | us not said here | 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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