Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 15
How very beautiful it is, and what happiness to be here!" exclaimed Babette.
Who acts: glow, happiness · What happens: be, happiness, exclaim · To what, where: Babette · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glow, happiness), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beautiful | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happiness | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 happiness | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happiness | nsubj |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 here | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 here | cop |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 happiness | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 happiness | punct |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beautiful | parataxis |
| 16 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 exclaimed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | glow | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happiness | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | happiness | Babette | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent babette=Topic |
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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