Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 47
Happy was he thus to pass from life to life, from earth to heaven.
Who acts: tone · What happens: be · To what, where: life
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 (tone), 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 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pass | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pass | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 pass | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 earth | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pass | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 earth | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tone | life | to life; from earth to heaven; pass, thus 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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