Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 84
Oh what a splendid sight there was to be sure!
Who acts: splendid sight · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid sight), 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 | _ | 10 sure | discourse |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 sight | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sure | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | what splendid sight | sure 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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