Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 12
"Why mournest thou, and wherefore dost thou suffer thus?"
Who acts: thou · What happens: mourn, suffer · To what, where: thou
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mournest | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 mournest | advmod |
| 3 | mournest | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 mournest | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 suffer | cc |
| 7 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 suffer | advmod |
| 8 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 suffer | aux |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mournest | conj |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 suffer | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mournest | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mournest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn in a quote | present | thou | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | suffer in a quote | present · do-support | thou | thus, wherefore property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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