Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 68
If I from him must part, I'm sure 'twill break my heart!' '
Who acts: I · What happens: part, be, break · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 part | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 part | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 I | nmod |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 part | aux |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sure | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 12 | twill | twill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | compound |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 break | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part a condition, not said to happen | must | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | infinitive | I not said here | my heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=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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