Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 11
Thou hast paid the long passage with all that was thine, and poor and helpless shalt thou enter Canaan.
Who acts: that, thou · What happens: pay, be, enter · To what, where: Thou, thine, long passage, Canaan
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | aux |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 passage | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 passage | amod |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 enter | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 thine | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thine | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thine | cop |
| 11 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 enter | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poor | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 poor | cc |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enter | csubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 helpless | cc |
| 16 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poor | conj |
| 17 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 19 enter | aux |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 enter | nsubj |
| 19 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 passage | acl |
| 20 | Canaan | Canaan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 enter | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present · perfect · passive | Thou | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient passage=Asset | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | that | thine | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | shall | thou | the long passage not said here | Canaan | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme canaan=Destination |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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