Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 86
Oh! that it were always spring in the fragrant beechwood!"
Who acts: thyme · What happens: be · To what, where: spring, fragrant beechwood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thyme), 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 | _ | 7 spring | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 spring | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spring | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spring | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 spring | advmod |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 beechwood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beechwood | det |
| 10 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beechwood | amod |
| 11 | beechwood | beechwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spring | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 spring | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thyme | spring | the fragrant beechwood | always property | 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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