Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 79
But the whole now passes before me again in thought, and everything that I have lived to see; and these are the old thoughts, with what they may bring with them.
Who acts: whole, these, thoughts · What happens: pass, live, see, be, bring · To what, where: thought, old thoughts
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 (whole, these, thoughts), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 passes | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passes | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passes | advmod |
| 5 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 passes | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 passes | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 thought | case |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 everything | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 everything | cc |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 passes | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lived | aux |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lived | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 thoughts | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thoughts | cc |
| 22 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 thoughts | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thoughts | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thoughts | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thoughts | amod |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passes | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bring | punct |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 bring | mark |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 bring | obj |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bring | nsubj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 bring | aux |
| 32 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thoughts | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bring | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | the whole | thought | before me; now; again | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before i=Location | |||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | these | the old thoughts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | may | thoughts = thought | the old thoughts | with legs = leg | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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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