Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 38
The daughter sighed very gently; and how much there may be in a sigh, or attributed to it!
Who acts: daughter · What happens: sigh, be, attribute · To what, where: sigh
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 (daughter), 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 | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 gently | advmod |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 3 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sigh | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sigh | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 sigh | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 be | expl |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sigh | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sigh | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sigh | det |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attributed | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 attributed | cc |
| 18 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sighed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attributed | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the daughter | gently property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | a sigh | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attribute | participle | the daughter not said here | sigh | tree rules |
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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