Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 103

"Thank heaven we are at home again within our own four walls," said mamma-in-law and daughter both, on their return after a year's absence.

Who acts: we, mamma, eyes, year · What happens: thank, be, say, return, absent · To what, where: heaven, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, mamma, eyes, year), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 home	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 home	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	2 Thank	advmod
9	within	within	ADP	_	13 walls	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 walls	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 walls	amod
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 walls	nummod
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Thank	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 law	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 law	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 in	punct
21	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mamma	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 daughter	cc
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 law	conj
24	both	both	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 return	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 return	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 return	nmod:poss
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
29	after	after	ADP	_	33 absence	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 year	det
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 absence	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 year	case
33	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 return	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		heaven		again	within our own four walls	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	we		home			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	mamma				both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	return		eyes = eye			after a year's absence		nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent after=obl
5	absent		a year					nom absence «state 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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