Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 67
An emperor's tears have wonderful power, and are quite sufficient honor for me;" and then she sang again more enchantingly than ever.
Who acts: tears, power · What happens: have, be, sing · To what, where: wonderful power, sufficient honor
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 (tears, power), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 emperor | case |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 power | amod |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 honor | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 honor | cc |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 honor | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 sufficient | advmod |
| 12 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 honor | amod |
| 13 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 honor | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sang | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 sang | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 enchantingly | advmod |
| 24 | enchantingly | enchantingly | ADV | _ | 21 sang | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 enchantingly | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a emperor's tears | wonderful power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sufficient honor | for me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | power | then; again | enchantingly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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