Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 80
"Why this is beautiful, too beautiful to be believed," said the oak in a joyful tone. "
Who acts: this, oak · What happens: be, believe, say · 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 (this, oak), 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 | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beautiful | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 believed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 believed | aux:pass |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oak | det |
| 16 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tone | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tone | det |
| 19 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tone | amod |
| 20 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 oak | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | this not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | this not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the oak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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