Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 151
In the depths of the sea my beloved sleeps sweetly; the myrtle has become an old tree, and I am a still older woman.
Who acts: beloved, myrtle, I · What happens: sleep, become, be · To what, where: depths, old tree, older woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beloved, myrtle, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 depths | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 depths | det |
| 3 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sleeps | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 depths | nmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeps | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sleeps | nsubj |
| 9 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 9 sleeps | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 myrtle | det |
| 13 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sleeps | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tree | amod |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 woman | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 woman | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 woman | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 woman | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 older | advmod |
| 25 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeps | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | beloved | the depths of the sea | sweetly property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in depth=Location | |||
| 2 | become | present · perfect | the myrtle | a old tree | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a older woman | tree rules |
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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