Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 63
O thou, to whom I do my heart devote, Oh read this page of glad days now remote, A dark, dark tale, which I tonight devote!
Who acts: I, thou, dark dark tale · What happens: do, devote, read, page · To what, where: heart, page, glad days
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 (I, thou, dark dark tale), 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 devote | discourse |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 devote | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 devote | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 whom | case |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 devote | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whom | acl:relcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 read | discourse |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 devote | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 page | det |
| 15 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 17 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 page | nmod |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 remote | advmod |
| 20 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tale | punct |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tale | det |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tale | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dark | punct |
| 25 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tale | amod |
| 26 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 page | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 devote | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 devote | nsubj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 devote | nsubj |
| 30 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 devote | compound |
| 31 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tale | conj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 devote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | my heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | devote | infinitive | thou | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to whom=Goal | |||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | thou not said here | this page of glad days | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Topic | ||||
| 4 | devote | infinitive | a dark dark tale | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | page | glad days | nom page «communication 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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