Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 10
There are tragedies in every-day life, and tonight I saw the last act of one.
Who acts: tragedies, I · What happens: be, see · To what, where: day life, last act
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tragedies, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tragedies | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 every | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | compound |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 11 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 act | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 act | amod |
| 16 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 act | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | tragedies | day life; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | the last act of one | tonight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer act=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/94/10/