Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 32
The happy day, as it is called, that is, their wedding-day, was near at hand.
Who acts: that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: happiness, wedding day, day hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 day | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 wedding | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hand | cop |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 hand | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | happiness | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | Babette's wedding day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | day hand | near property | tree rules |
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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