Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 77
Words, uttered in the fulness of joy, were again heard amid the depths of sorrow.
Who acts: Words · What happens: utter, hear, be · To what, where: Words, fulness, heard amid
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 (Words), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 amid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Words | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fulness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fulness | det |
| 6 | fulness | fulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fulness | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Words | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 amid | cop |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 amid | amod |
| 13 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 depths | det |
| 15 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 amid | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sorrow | case |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 depths | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 amid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | participle | Words not said here | the fulness of joy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Words | heard amid and the depths of sorrow | 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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