Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 62
Every day here there was sunshine, plenty to eat, and nothing to think of but pleasure.
Who acts: sunshine · What happens: be, eat, think · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunshine), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 day | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plenty | punct |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sunshine | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plenty | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nothing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nothing | cc |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 eat | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 think | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 pleasure | cc |
| 18 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | sunshine and plenty | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | sunshine and plenty not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | sunshine and plenty not said here | nothing not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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