Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 19
Oh!" she exclaimed in her agony; "oh, that I had died on the happiest day of my life, my wedding-day.
Who acts: Babette, I · What happens: exclaim, die · To what, where: agony
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 agony | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 agony | nmod:poss |
| 8 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 11 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 died | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 oh | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 died | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 died | aux |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 day | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 wedding | punct |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Babette | Babette's agony | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | I | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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