Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 68
Hurrah! that would be a spectacle for the gods, and better still to follow in its course."
Who acts: Hurrah · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: spectacle, course
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hurrah), 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 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spectacle | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hurrah | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Hurrah | fixed |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 spectacle | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spectacle | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spectacle | det |
| 7 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 gods | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gods | det |
| 10 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spectacle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 follow | cc |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 follow | advmod |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 follow | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 follow | mark |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 spectacle | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 course | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 course | nmod:poss |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spectacle | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 spectacle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | Hurrah | a spectacle | for the gods | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | spectacle's course | still | well property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in course=Location |
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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