Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 103
This was a funeral oration over the old tree; short, but well-meant.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: funeral oration, old tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 oration | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 oration | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 oration | det |
| 4 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oration | compound |
| 5 | oration | oration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oration | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 oration | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meant | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 meant | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 meant | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 well | punct |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 short | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 oration | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a funeral oration | the old tree | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | participle | This not said here | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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