Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 75

“There, thou hast thine eyes,” said Death; “I fished them up from the lake, they shone so bright; I knew not they were thine.

Who acts: thou, Death, eyes · What happens: have, say, fish up, shine, not know, be · To what, where: eyes, lake, thine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Death, eyes), 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	_	5 hast	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 hast	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 hast	nsubj
5	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hast	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hast	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 fished	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 fished	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fished	nsubj
15	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fished	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 fished	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 lake	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lake	det
20	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fished	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shone	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shone	nsubj
23	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fished	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 bright	advmod
25	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 shone	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 knew	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 knew	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thine	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thine	cop
32	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 knew	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	thou	thine eyes	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Death				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fish up in a quote	past	Death	eyes = eye	the lake		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	shine in a quote	past	eyes = eye			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not know in a quote	past	Death				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a in a quote	past	eyes = eye	thine			tree rules

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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