Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 159
I will sing to you of those who are happy, and those who suffer; of the good and the evil, who are hidden around you.
Who acts: I, those · What happens: sing, be, suffer, hide · To what, where: you, evil
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, those), 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 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 sing | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 those | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suffer | cc |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 15 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 good | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 good | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sing | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 evil | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 evil | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 good | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hidden | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hidden | aux:pass |
| 26 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 evil | acl:relcl |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 hidden | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | future | I | you | of those | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | suffer | present | those | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hide | present · passive | the evil | around you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient around you=Location |
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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