Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 158

I will sit on a bough outside your window, in the evening, and sing to you, so that you may be happy, and have thoughts full of joy.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: sit, sing, be, have · To what, where: bough, you, thoughts

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, you), 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	3 sit	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bough	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bough	det
6	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 window	nmod:poss
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bough	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 evening	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sing	cc
16	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 sing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happy	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 happy	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 happy	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 happy	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 happy	cop
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sit	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	parataxis
29	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thoughts	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 joy	case
32	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 full	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	future	I			a bough outside your window	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	I not said here		you				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
3	is	may	you					happy property	tree rules
4	have	present		thoughts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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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