Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 42
Alas, a great deal too near!
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 deal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 near | advmod |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 deal | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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