Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 23
"Poor little Ephemera!" said the oak; "what a terribly short life!"
Who acts: Poor little Ephemera · What happens: say · To what, where: oak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Poor little Ephemera), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ephemera | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ephemera | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ephemera | amod |
| 4 | Ephemera | ephemera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ephemera | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ephemera | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 oak | det |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 14 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 15 short | advmod |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Poor little Ephemera | the oak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oak=Topic |
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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