Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 43
“The old thoughts, with what they may bring with them, come and visit me, and now you also come!
Who acts: thoughts, you · What happens: bring, come, visit · To what, where: old thoughts, boy
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thoughts | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thoughts | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thoughts | amod |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 bring | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thoughts | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bring | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 visit | cc |
| 16 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 visit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 come | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thoughts | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thoughts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | may | thoughts = thought | the old thoughts | with hands = hand | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | thoughts = thought not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | visit in a quote | infinitive | thoughts = thought not said here | boy | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | you | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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