Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 147
I shall never forget that I drew tears from your eyes the first time I sang to you.
Who acts: I · What happens: not forget, draw, sing · To what, where: tears, eyes, first time, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 forget | advmod |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 drew | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forget | ccomp |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drew | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drew | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sang | nsubj |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sang | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | I | tears | your eyes | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | I | the first time not said here | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Topic to you=Recipient |
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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