Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 86
"It is right so, it is best," said the tree, "no fetters hold me now.
Who acts: heaven, tree, fetters · What happens: be, say, hold · To what, where: tree · 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 (heaven, tree, fetters), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 best | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 right | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 fetters | det |
| 18 | fetters | fetter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 hold | obj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 hold | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | heaven | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | present | no fetters | the tree = tree | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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