Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 47
Then the prisoner burst into tears, and exclaimed, "Oh how could I imagine such mercy and forgiveness!
Who acts: prisoner · What happens: burst, exclaim, imagine · To what, where: tears, such mercy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 burst | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prisoner | det |
| 3 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burst | nsubj |
| 4 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burst | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 exclaimed | cc |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 burst | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 imagine | discourse |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 imagine | advmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagine | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 imagine | nsubj |
| 16 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mercy | amod |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 imagine | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forgiveness | cc |
| 20 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mercy | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the prisoner | tears | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | the prisoner not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | imagine in a quote | could | the prisoner = prisoner | such mercy and forgiveness | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mercy=Theme |
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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