Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 72
"You must not look only on the sorrowful side," said the little boy; "I think everything in this house is beautiful, and all the old pleasant thoughts come back here to pay visits."
Who acts: You, little boy, everything, old pleasant thoughts · What happens: not look, say, think, be, come back, pay · To what, where: visits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, little boy, everything, old pleasant thoughts), 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 | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 side | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 everything | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 think | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 come | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 thoughts | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thoughts | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thoughts | amod |
| 32 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 thoughts | amod |
| 33 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 come | nsubj |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 come | advmod |
| 36 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 come | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 pay | mark |
| 38 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 come | advcl |
| 39 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 pay | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | must | You | on the sorrowful side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the little boy = boy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | everything | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come back in a quote | present | all old pleasant thoughts | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pay in a quote | to-infinitive | all old pleasant thoughts not said here | visits | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
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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