Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 25
I may congratulate you, for they lifted themselves on high most majestically!”
Who acts: I, swallows · What happens: congratulate, lift · To what, where: you, swallows, high
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, swallows), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 congratulate | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 congratulate | aux |
| 3 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 congratulate | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 lifted | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 congratulate | advcl |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 lifted | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 high | case |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lifted | obl |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 majestically | advmod |
| 13 | majestically | majestically | ADV | _ | 8 lifted | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 congratulate | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 congratulate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | congratulate | may | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | swallows = swallow | swallows = swallow | high | majestically property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on high=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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