Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 3

Yes, the spouting water may tell of her, the waves of the sea may sing of her fame!

Who acts: spouting water, waves · What happens: tell, sing, wave · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spouting water, waves), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	spouting	spouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waves	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waves	det
12	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sing	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waves	nmod
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sing	aux
17	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 fame	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fame	nmod:poss
20	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sing	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	the spouting water		of Pompeii	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	may	the waves of the sea		of water's fame	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wave			the sea		nom wave «event 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: «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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