Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 16
"Earth has nothing more to bestow upon me," said Rudy; "an evening like this is worth a whole life.
Who acts: Earth, Rudy, evening · What happens: have, bestow, say, be · To what, where: nothing · 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 (Earth, Rudy, evening), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bestow | mark |
| 7 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bestow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 worth | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 worth | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 evening | det |
| 17 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worth | nsubj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 evening | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 worth | cop |
| 21 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 life | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 worth | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Earth | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bestow in a quote | to-infinitive | Earth not said here | nothing not said here | upon Rudy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | a evening like this | worth 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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