Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 119
They love me for myself alone, they keep me bright, and supply me with oil.
Who acts: people · What happens: love, keep, supply · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 myself | case |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 love | obl |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 love | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 supply | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 supply | cc |
| 14 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 keep | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 supply | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 oil | case |
| 17 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supply | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | people | me | for myself; alone property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus for myself=Attribute | |||
| 2 | keep | present | people | me | bright property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | supply | infinitive | people not said here | me | with oil | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with oil=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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