Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 161
I love your heart better than your crown; and yet something holy lingers round that also.
Who acts: I, something, your · What happens: love, linger, crown · To what, where: heart
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, something, your), 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 | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 love | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 better | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lingers | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 something | cc |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 something | advmod |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 lingers | nsubj |
| 13 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | lingers | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lingers | obl |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 lingers | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | your heart | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | linger | present | something | round that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crown | your | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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