Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 31
He will be the joy of our home; and we old folks have nothing else to live for.
Who acts: youngster, we · What happens: be, have, live · To what, where: joy, nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngster, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 joy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joy | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 joy | det |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folks | amod |
| 13 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 we | conj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | parataxis |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 nothing | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | youngster | the joy | of our home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | we not said here | nothing not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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