Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 27
Had she not been brought by a wonderful miracle to all this joy and happiness?
Who acts: wonderful miracle · What happens: not bring · To what, where: Helga, joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful miracle), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 brought | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 miracle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miracle | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 miracle | amod |
| 9 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 joy | det:predet |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 joy | det |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happiness | cc |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joy | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | past · perfect · passive | a wonderful miracle | Helga | all joy and happiness | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to joy=Destination |
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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