Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 63
The grand, majestic oak could not be quite happy in the midst of his enjoyment, while all the rest, both great and small, were not with him.
Who acts: grand majestic oak, child · What happens: not be, be, enjoy · To what, where: midst
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 (grand majestic oak, child), 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 | 5 oak | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 oak | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 oak | amod |
| 5 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 happy | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 enjoyment | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 enjoyment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 midst | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rest | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 rest | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 rest | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 great | punct |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 24 great | cc:preconj |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happy | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 small | cc |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 great | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 him | punct |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 him | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 him | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | the grand majestic oak | the midst of child's enjoyment | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the grand majestic oak not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not is | past | the grand majestic oak not said here | with child | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | child | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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