Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 25
The same thing was continued through many generations of Ephemera; all of them felt equally merry and equally happy.
Who acts: all · What happens: continue, feel · To what, where: same thing
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 (all), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | aux:pass |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 generations | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 generations | amod |
| 8 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ephemera | case |
| 10 | Ephemera | Ephemera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 generations | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 all | nmod |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 16 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 17 merry | advmod |
| 17 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 happy | cc |
| 19 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 20 happy | advmod |
| 20 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 merry | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past · passive | the same thing | through many generations of Ephemera | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme through generation=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | all | merry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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