Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 15
Song doth not carry them forth over the lands, nor into the hearts of men; therefore I have no rest and no peace."
Who acts: Song, I · What happens: not carry, have · To what, where: deeds, lands, rest
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 (Song, I), 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 | Song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 carry | advmod |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 lands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lands | det |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hearts | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 hearts | cc |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hearts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hearts | det |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lands | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hearts | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 have | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | parataxis |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 peace | cc |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 peace | det |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rest | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | present · do-support | Song | deeds = deed | the lands nor the hearts of men | forth property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | present | I | no rest and no peace | therefore property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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