Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 7
A happy New Year," was the cry; "a pretty wife, plenty of money, and no sorrow or care."
Who acts: happy New Year · What happens: be · To what, where: cry
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy New 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Year | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Year | amod |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Year | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Year | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cry | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cry | det |
| 9 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wife | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plenty | punct |
| 16 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plenty | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sorrow | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sorrow | cc |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 sorrow | det |
| 22 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 care | cc |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sorrow | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | a happy New Year | the cry and no sorrow or care | 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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