Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 71
"'O Glove, my own dear, Though it cost thee a tear, Thou must be mine, For Holger Danske has sworn it!'
Who acts: you, word, Thou, Holger · What happens: glove, cost, be, swear · To what, where: tear, thee, Pipe head, word
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 (you, word, Thou, Holger), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glove | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glove | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 Glove | discourse |
| 4 | Glove | glove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dear | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dear | amod |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Glove | csubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cost | punct |
| 10 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 cost | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cost | nsubj |
| 12 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dear | conj |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 cost | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tear | det |
| 15 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cost | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mine | punct |
| 17 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 mine | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 mine | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 mine | cop |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Glove | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sworn | punct |
| 22 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 sworn | mark |
| 23 | Holger | Holger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sworn | nsubj |
| 24 | Danske | Danske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Holger | flat |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sworn | aux |
| 26 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 Glove | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sworn | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glove | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Glove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glove in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | past | word | a tear | thee | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary tear=Value | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | Thou | Pipe head = head | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | Holger | word | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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