Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 52

“I sat one evening sunk in dreams of bliss, A maid of seven years old gave me a kiss, I at that time was rich in poesy And tales of old, though poor as poor could be; But all she asked for was this poesy.

Who acts: pair, maid · What happens: sit, sink, give, be, ask, dream · To what, where: dreams, kiss, pair, poesy, all, bliss

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 (pair, maid), 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	_	3 sat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 evening	nummod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl:unmarked
6	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 dreams	case
8	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sunk	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bliss	case
10	bliss	bliss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dreams	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 maid	det
13	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 old	obl:unmarked
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maid	amod
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kiss	det
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rich	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 rich	nsubj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rich	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rich	cop
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 poesy	case
30	poesy	poesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rich	obl
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 tales	cc
32	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 poesy	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 old	case
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tales	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 poor	punct
36	though	though	ADV	_	37 poor	advmod
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rich	conj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 poor	case
39	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 poor	obl
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 be	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 poor	cop
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 asked	punct
43	But	but	CCONJ	_	44 all	cc
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 asked	obl
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 asked	nsubj
46	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 poesy	case
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 poesy	cop
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 poesy	det
50	poesy	poesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 asked	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	pair				evening		tree rules
2	sink in a quote	participle	pair not said here			dreams of bliss			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	give in a quote	past	a maid	a kiss	pair				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	pair			poesy and tales of old	time	rich property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	infinitive	pair not said here					as poor; poor, though property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	maid	all					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	past						for this poesy	tree rules
8	dream in a quote			bliss					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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