Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 51
Have pity, Thou, who all man's wants dost see.
Who acts: pity · What happens: have, want, see · To what, where: pity
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thou | punct |
| 4 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 pity | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wants | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wants | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 man | case |
| 10 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pity | acl:relcl |
| 11 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wants | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||||
| 2 | want | present | pity | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | present · do-support | pity not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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