Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 56
And, indeed, they returned on a day that was rich in joy and gladness.
Who acts: nostrils, day · What happens: return, be · To what, where: 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 (nostrils, day), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 returned | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rich | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | cop |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rich | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gladness | cc |
| 16 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joy | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | nostrils = nostril | day | indeed property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | a day | joy and gladness | rich property | 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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