Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 166
Oh dear," sighed Little Claus, "I am very young, yet I am soon going to heaven."
Who acts: I · What happens: sigh, be, go · To what, where: Little, heaven
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 dear | discourse |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dear | conj |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sighed | obj |
| 7 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Little | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 young | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 young | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 young | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 young | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 young | advmod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sighed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 15 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 going | advmod |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 dear | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 heaven | case |
| 21 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh in a quote | past | Little | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | I | heaven | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial_Location |
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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