Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 82
I also wished to see this land again--for you know we always love our native land.
Who acts: I, you, we · What happens: wish, see, know, love · To what, where: land, native land
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, we), 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 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 wished | advmod |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 love | advcl |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 love | advmod |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | advcl |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 land | nmod:poss |
| 17 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 land | amod |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 love | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | this land | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | love | present | we | our native land | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
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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