Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 95
Every one, high and low, had from their inmost hearts expressed their opinion that it was a great misfortune for so many thousands of people--the whole country indeed--to have this man so sick, with no hopes of his recovery.
Who acts: one, opinion, things, recovery, sunbeam · What happens: have, express, be, opine, hope, recover · To what, where: inmost hearts, opinion, great misfortune, man
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 (one, opinion, things, recovery), 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 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expressed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 high | punct |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 one | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 low | cc |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 high | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 one | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hearts | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | inmost | inmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hearts | amod |
| 12 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obl |
| 13 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expressed | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 misfortune | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 misfortune | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 misfortune | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 misfortune | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 misfortune | amod |
| 21 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expressed | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 thousands | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 thousands | amod |
| 25 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 misfortune | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 thousands | nmod |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 country | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 country | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 country | amod |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 misfortune | conj |
| 32 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 31 country | advmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expressed | parataxis |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 sick | advmod |
| 39 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 have | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hopes | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 hopes | case |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 hopes | det |
| 43 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 have | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 recovery | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 46 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hopes | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | things's inmost hearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | express | past | every one | things's opinion | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | opinion | a great misfortune and the whole country | for many thousands of people | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | this man | sick property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 5 | opine | things = thing | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | hope | sunbeam's recovery | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | recover | sunbeam | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=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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