Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 15
You may have thousands of my days, but I have thousands of moments in which I can be merry and happy.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: thousands
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 days | nmod:poss |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thousands | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 12 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 moments | case |
| 14 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thousands | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 merry | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 merry | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 merry | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 merry | cop |
| 20 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moments | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 happy | cc |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 merry | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | may | You | thousands of my days | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | thousands of moments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | can | I | in moments | merry property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | I not said here | 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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