Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 49
That harmony speaks to our hearts, and lifts up our souls!
Who acts: harmony · What happens: speak, lift up · To what, where: souls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (harmony), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 harmony | det |
| 2 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hearts | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 speaks | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifts | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lifts | cc |
| 9 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 speaks | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 lifts | compound:prt |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 souls | nmod:poss |
| 12 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lifts | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | that harmony | to our hearts | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to heart=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift up | present | that harmony not said here | our souls | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
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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