Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 74
Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them!
Who acts: I, gout, thoughts, one · What happens: know, be, bring, think · To what, where: old thoughts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, gout, thoughts, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 have | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 visit | det |
| 11 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 thoughts | case |
| 13 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 one | case |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thoughts | amod |
| 16 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 bring | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | aux |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | gout | one's old thoughts | have property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | may | thoughts = thought | with legs = leg | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think | one | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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