Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 75
“But 'tis the air which enables thee to breathe,” said the poet's voice.
Who acts: air, thee, voice · What happens: ti, enable, breathe, say · To what, where: air, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, thee, voice), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tis | cc |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tis | punct |
| 4 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tis | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 enables | nsubj |
| 8 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 air | acl:relcl |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 enables | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 breathe | mark |
| 11 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 enables | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tis | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tis | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 poet | det |
| 16 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 poet | case |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ti in a quote | present | the air | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enable in a quote | present | the air | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | breathe in a quote | to-infinitive | thee not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the poet's voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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