Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 122
Believe me, I entertain for you the kindest wishes in my heart; but to feel for you what I now know can be felt for another man, can never be.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: believe, entertain, feel, know, not be · To what, where: me, kindest wishes, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Believe | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 entertain | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 entertain | nsubj |
| 5 | entertain | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Believe | parataxis |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 entertain | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wishes | det |
| 9 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 wishes | amod |
| 10 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 entertain | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wishes | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feel | mark |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Believe | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | obl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 know | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 felt | parataxis |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 felt | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 felt | aux:pass |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 feel | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 man | case |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 man | det |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 be | punct |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 be | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Believe | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | imperative | you not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | entertain | present | I | the kindest wishes | my heart | for you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wish=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | feel | to-infinitive | you not said here | for you | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | feel | can · passive | you not said here | for another man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: for man=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not can | can | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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